<rs type="textType">Votive</rs> offering by Fl. Bonifatius J. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins

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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.

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Description of Monument

Part of a mosaic panel comprising the left-hand side of a tabella ansata (die, 0.41 0.41)

Description of Text

Letters within the tabella.

Description of Letters

Lettering: 0.07-0.09.

Date

The floor is of the fourth century, but antedates the church in its present form.

Locations

Sabratha: Church III: in the centre of the mosaic floor between the altar and the bema of the Church (Reg. III ins. 4).

Unknown

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Bibliography

Romanelli, Atti del IV Congresso di Archeologia Cristiana, Rome, 1940, I:261.

Text constituted from

Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)

Text Flauius Bon exceptor m suis de uotum soluit
Apparatus

FlauiusBonifatius exceptor cum suis deo uotum soluitl. 2 can more easily be read as EXCEPTO N

Translation

Flavius Bonifatius 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)