174. Invocation

Description:
Mosaic emblema, comprising an inscribed tabella ansata (die, w: 0.54 x h: 0.45) within a wreath; the whole forming part of the late fourth century A.D. floor of a house behind the Antonine Temple. 
Text:
Mosaic lettering 
Letters:
Lettering: 0.05. 
Date:
Late fourth century (lettering) 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Late Fourth century floor of a house behind the Antonine Temple (Reg. II, ins. 10, house G). 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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) 
Concesit fort[unam]
michi tam gra[to]
gratia inprobi qu-
id prodes quod
5mea fata [·· 4-5··]ua
deo bos[·· 4-5··]atis
parcị[·· 7-8··]aceatis
CONCESITFORT[·····]
MICHITAMGRA[···]
GRATIAINPROBIQV
IDPRODESQVOD
5MEAFATA[·· 4-5··]VA
DEOBOS[·· 4-5··]ATIS
PARC·[·· 7-8··]ACEATIS
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Concesit
fort
<supplied reason="lost" >
unam
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
michi
tam
gra
<supplied reason="lost" >
to
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
gratia
inprobi
qu
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
id
prodes
quod
<lb n="5" />
mea
fata
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" extentmax="5" />
ua
<lb n="6" />
deo
bos
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" extentmax="5" />
atis
<lb n="7" />
parc
<unclear reason="" >
i
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" extentmax="8" />
aceatis
</ab>

6, The sixth letter of this line is now destroyed, but appears in a photograph taken when first excavated; perhaps suadeo bos (for vos) ut ...

Translation:

? The gratitude of a criminal yielded fortune to me who am so grateful; what use are you? because my fates [·· ? ··] ? I persuade you [·· ? ··] sparing (plural)[·· ? ··]

(N.B. I do not understand this text.)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS Leica 467 or 468)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DS Leica 467 or 468)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.III.11)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.III.11)

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