Description: Mosaic floor emblema figuring the Triumph of Dionysus
(w:
1.40 x h:
1.01).
Text: Mosaic lettering above the scene.
Letters: ave. 0.05; square sigma, square omega.
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Valley Street, House of the Mosaic of Dionysos, in the floor.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
For ever the family of Kampanos ! For the matron Epikrita!
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
إلى الأبد عائلة كامبانوس! لأجل الماترون (السيدة الراعية) إبيكريتا
Commentary
For matrona as an epithet in Greek see e.g. SEG 51.915 (PHI 309741, IAph2007 12.532 line 13, SEG 6.452 (PHI 282239)
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1971, plate 47; Stucchi, 1975, 495, n.5; Venturini, 2013, 75, on which Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2014.539
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Mosaic and inscription (Joyce Reynolds)
Fig. 2. Mosaic and inscription (Joyce Reynolds)
Fig. 3. Mosaic and inscription (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Reynolds VIII.95)
Fig. 4. Mosaic and inscription (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 5. Mosaic and inscription (2008, H.Walda)