Description: Mosaic inscription on the bottom of a rock-cut basin
(w:
1.5 x h:
1 x d:
1
Text: Mosaic of clear tesserae forming letters inside a tabella ansata of darker terracotta tesserae
Letters: 0.04-0.05; alpha with broken bar and projecting apex, outer strokes of mu and nu tending to curve.
Date: Second or third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
on the west side of Theatre 5.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Theatre 5
English translation
Translation by: Catherine Dobias-Lalou
Belonging to the Nymphs.
French translation
Translation by: Catherine Dobias-Lalou
Propriété des Nymphes.
Commentary
The inscription should be connected with the purification rites performed in honor of Demeter in the nearby theatre.
Bibliography: DescribedLuni, 2006 p. 2186, fig. 11, whence SEG 56.2031. Published Marengo, 2010app. 146-149, fig. 10, whence SEG 60.1839.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Marengo, Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).