Description: Mosaic floor with a series of panels, with C.66, C.67, C.68,
C.69, C.70, C.71,
C.72, C.73.
Text: Red mosaic lettering within a rectangular panel
(w:
0.32 x h:
0.39), beside C.71
Letters: ll. 1-3, 0.07; line 4, 0.06; square sigma, cursive omega.
Date: Fourth century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: House of Hesychios: on the floor of the West corridor.
Found in 1945, but the house had been partly uncovered in 1934.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
Good Fortune to Athenaeis!
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Good Fortune to Athenais!
Commentary
For this group of texts see on C.66; for the name - an itacising version of Athenais - see Dobias-Lalou, l.c.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 5.g, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.746.g, PHI 324448; republished Reynolds, 1980, 149, A.vii. whence SEG 30.1785.1.f, PHI 324533; republished Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 173.1g, Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.450.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
