Description:
Part of a mosaic panel comprising the left-hand side of a tabella ansata (die,w: 0.41 x h: 0.41) 
Text:
Letters within the tabella. 
Letters:
Lettering: 0.07-0.09. 
Date:
The floor is of the fourth century, but antedates the church in its present form. 
Findspot:
Sabratha: Church III: in the centre of the mosaic floor between the altar and the bema of the Church (Reg. III ins. 4). 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Romanelli, Atti del IV Congresso di Archeologia Cristiana, Rome, 1940, I:261. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Fl(auius) Bon[·· ? ··]
exceptoṛ [·· ? ··]
m suis de[·· ? ··]
uotum s[oluit]
FLBON[·· ? ··]
EXCEPTO·[·· ? ··]
MSVISDE[·· ? ··]
VOTVMS[······]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Fl
</abbr>
<ex>
auius
</ex>
</expan>
Bon
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
excepto
<unclear reason="damage" >
r
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
m
suis
de
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
uotum
s
<supplied reason="lost" >
oluit
</supplied>
</ab>

Fl(auius)Boni[fatius] exceptor [cu]m suis de[o] uotum s[oluit], l. 2 can more easily be read as EXCEPTO N[·· ? ··]

Translation:

Flavius Bon[?ifatius] shorthand writer, [with] his family, paid his [vow]

Commentary:

The most recent excavation (1949) appears to establish that the mosaic is contemporary with an earlier form of the church, and is therefore Christian.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.IX.10)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.IX.10)

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