13. Votive offering by Fl. Bonifatius
- Description:
- Part of a mosaic panel comprising the left-hand side of a tabella ansata (die,w: 0.41 x h: 0.41)
- Text:
- Letters within the tabella.
- Letters:
- Lettering: 0.07-0.09.
- Date:
- The floor is of the fourth century, but antedates the church in its present form.
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Church III: in the centre of the mosaic floor between the altar and the bema of the Church (Reg. III ins. 4).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Romanelli, Atti del IV Congresso di Archeologia Cristiana, Rome, 1940, I:261. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
auius
</ex>
Bon
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
excepto
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
r
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
m
suis
de
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
uotum
s
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
oluit
</supplied>
Fl(auius)Boni[fatius] exceptor [cu]m suis de[o] uotum s[oluit], l. 2 can more easily be read as EXCEPTO N[·· ? ··]
Translation:
Flavius Bon[?ifatius] shorthand writer, [with] his family, paid his [vow]
Commentary:
The most recent excavation (1949) appears to establish that the mosaic is contemporary with an earlier form of the church, and is therefore Christian.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.IX.10)
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