Description: Mosaic floor with one of the Rivers of Paradise represented
in each of the four corners (only two surviving);
in front of the apse, full-length captioned figures of Ktisis,
Kosmesis and Ananeosis
standing side by side each under one of the arches of a triple arcade;
between them and the door is a Nilotic scene bordered by representations of rural life;
there is no threshold text. Overlying another earlier mosaic
T.15.
Text: Mosaic lettering captions to the three figures under the triple arcade, and the two extant Rivers of Paradise.
Letters: Not measured; cursive alpha, angular sigma and omega.
Date: Fifth - sixth century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Palace Complex, in the apsed hall
of a possible baptistry or chapel
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Tocra Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
1. Foundation
2. Adornment
3. Renewal
4. Phison
5. Euphrates
Commentary
For discussion see Christian Monuments (cited above)
Bibliography: Fakroun, 2001 whence SEG 51.2215; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 222, whence SEG 53.2071.1.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).