Kh. Jannaba et-Taḥta - Chapel (?)

Mosaic inscription in a tabula ansata, 2.51 m long and 0.62 m wide. The border of the tabula ansata consists, from outside to inside, of one row of white tesserae, one black row, two white rows, one black row and one white row. A similar sequence of colors is repeated in the ears of the tabula ansata. The text of the inscription is written in smaller black tesserae (1.3 x 1.4 cm) on a dense white ground (64 tesserae per sq. dcm), in three registers, separated by two rows of larger tesserae. The top register is 11 cm high, the middle 9.5 cm and the lower 10 cm. The letters in line 1 (8 cm) are larger than those of lines 2 and 3 (7 cm), and the interlinear space is 5 cm. There are lacunae in lines 1 and 2 due to later damage. Similarly, in line 3, at the end of the indiction number, a 10 x 10 cm square was already destroyed when the mosaic was plastered over in Stage 3. (Dauphin)