Description: Mosaic floor.
Text:
Mosaic lettering, in a panel representing Noah as he
releases the dove from the Ark.
Letters: 0.09; lunate epsilon, omega.
Date: Sixth century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
East Church: on the floor
of the south transept; found in 1920.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
Commentary
This is, so far, the only church mosaic in Cyrenaica to show a biblical scene. Rosenbaum discussed its depiction of Noah releasing from the ark, arguing that it is is rather old-fashioned for the time.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 9, whence SEG 18.760, PHI 324459; Reynolds, 1976, 3 and pl. LVII; Reynolds, 1980, 150, with plate, and discussion at p.61, whence SEG 30.1782, PHI 324530; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 57.1.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).