Caption for image of Noah

Monument

Type of monument
floor
Material
Mosaic
Description and condition
Mosaic floor.
Find place
Apollonia
Find circumstances
Unknown
Find context
Unknown
Modern location
Apollonia Museum.
Dimensions
Unknown
Institution and inventory
Unknown

Inscribed field

Placement of text
Mosaic lettering, in a panel representing Noah as he releases the dove from the Ark.
Style of lettering
Letterheights
0.09

Text

Origin
Findspot.
Category
Not specified
Date
Sixth century A.D.
Dating criteria
mosaic
Editions

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.

Νῶε

Apparatus

Translation

Noah.

Commentary

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.