Description:
Mosaic panel (w:
0.62 x h:
0.21), part of a
floor depicting the story of the Minotaur, and set immediately above a panel containing a representation of Ariadne holding
the string.
Text: Red mosaic lettering within a tabella ansata (w:
0.39 x h:
0.18).
Letters: Line 1, 0.08-0.09; line 2, 0.065, ε, ω.
Date: Second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
House of Jason Magnus,
on the floor of a room off the North corridor of the peristyle; found in 1936.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Museum
English translation
Translation by: Editors
For good (scil. luck)!
Commentary
A common acclamation for the good fortune of a house; see for example the mosaic floor of a house at Kourion, T.B. Mitford, Inscriptions of Kourion 201 (available at PHI208608
Bibliography: Mingazzini, 1966, 25 and pl. XIII, fig. 2; Venturini, 2013 no. 103; mentioned Kenrick, 2013, 164-5.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View (1936 October 5, Department of Antiquities, E.2624)