Description:
Left-hand side of a mosaic panel containing an irregular tabella ansata (die, surviving w: 1.33 x h: 0.32 x d: 0.42). The main text is grouped about a central Ω⳩Α, and the spaces are filled with simple foliate ornament. The right ansa is missing. 
Text:
Mosaic lettering 
Letters:
Fourth century A.D. a) To the left of the monogram: 0.10-0.15. b) To the right: 0.10-0.15. c) In the left (the only surviving) ansa: 0.05. 
Date:
Fourth century A.D. (lettering)  
Findspot:
Sabratha: Theatre: from the catacomb to the east of the theatre 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Sabratha Museum. 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. 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) 
a
Augu-
ria
b
P(lu)s m(inus)
qui bi-
xit ann-
os LXV
c
- Siddi-
npal-
ni
a
AVGV
RIA
b
PSM
QVIBI
XITANN
OSLXV
c
SIDDI
NPAL
NI
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Augu
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ria
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
lu
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
inus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
qui
bi
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
xit
ann
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
os
<num value="65" >
LXV
</num>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" type="worddiv" />
Siddi
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
npal
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ni
</ab>
</div>

c.1, Perhaps Siddinnipal

Translation:

a. Auguria

; b. who lived approximately 65 years

c. Sidinnipal (or Siddinipal)

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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