Tablet: Mosaic floor.
Dialect:
Mosaic lettering, in a panel representing Noah as he
releases the dove from the Ark.
Alphabet:
0.09; lunate epsilon, omega.
Date: Sixth century A.D.
Findspot:
Apollonia:
East Church: on the floor
of the south transept; found in 1920.
Original location: Findspot.
Current location:
Apollonia Museum.
Bibliography: 9, whence SEG 18.760 (= PHI 324459); 3 and pl. LVII; p. 150, with plate, and discussion at 61, whence SEG 30.1782 (= PHI 324530); 57.1.
Editor: Joyce M. Reynolds
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Noah.
This is, so far, the only church mosaic in Cyrenaica to show a biblical scene. Rosenbaum discussed its depiction of Noah releasing from the ark, arguing that it is is rather old-fashioned for the time.
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