248. Acclamation of greeting
- Description:
- The inscription on a mosaic pavement, is in red tesserae on a white ground and framed within a tabella ansata (w: 0.60 x h: 0.25).
- Text:
- Inscribed in mosaic.
- Letters:
- Third or fourth century A.D. lettering: w: 0.14 x h: 0.16.
- Date:
- Third or fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Oea: The frigidarium of a domestic hash-building in the Pozzolino Concession, near en-Ngila, N of Suani Ben-Adem (map ref. L 4155 approx.). partially excavated in 1928.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now in temporary storage at Sabratha.
- Bibliography:
- Africa Italiana (Rivista di Storia e d'Arte a cura del Ministero delle Colonie) 8 vols., Bergamo, 1927-1940, II:102 ff., fig. 34. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Bene
laba
Translation:
Wash well.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. B. 1682)
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