Caption on a mosaic panel
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First - second century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...] no. 61⟨ ; for the building [...], 307 f

Πάριϲ Ϲαμπαίου

Translation

Paris son of Sampaios

Commentary

This building can hardly have remained in use after the erection of the retaining wall of the Valley Street in the stretch betwen the Sanctuary and the Antonine Arch (see C.213), which must be dated in the Antonine-Severan period, and this provides a terminus ante quem for the mosaic which is itself difficult to date.

Line 2 the name recalls Egyptian names in Σαμπ-, see Preisigke, Namenbuch s.v.