24 | |
92, no. 1, fig. 3 (ph.) (ed. pr.) | |
23-24, no. 18 | |
265-266, no. 15 | |
151, no. 221 |
SEG 41 (1991): 1554; 46 (1996): 1938; 64 (2014): 1709
Findspt: In the mosaic floor in front of the northern apse of the baptistery. Found during salvage excavations of the early 1950s.
Pres. location: In situ. (Łajtar)
Fragmentary mosaic inscription within a medallion (diam. 138 cm) framed by two dark blue lines. The letters are in dark blue against a white background.
[Πρ(οσφορὰ) ?]
Προκο[πίου φι-]
λοχ(ρίστο)υ ψη[φώσαν]-
4 τος τὸ νέ[ον ἔργον ?ὑ]-
πὲρ μν[ήμης κ(αὶ) ἀναπαύ-]
σεως Πέτρου κ[(αὶ) - -]
νας τῶν αὐτοῦ υἱ̣[ῶν]
8 ἐν μη(νὶ) Ἰανουαρ(ίῳ) δ[νχʹ ?]
[Offering] of Christ-loving Procopius, who paved with mosaics the ne[w building] (or: the ne[w baptistery]) for the memory and rest of Petrus and [- -]na his sons, in the month of January [65]4.
L.1: not in Epstein–Tzaferis; ll.2-4: Προκό[πιος... δοῦ]|λο(ς) Χ(ριστο)ῦ ψή[φωσεν..]|τος τὸν ε.......[ὑ] | Epstein–Tzaferis; l.4: νέ[ον φωτιστήριον] or νε[οφωτιστήριον] Łajtar; l.6: in fine καὶ. . . . Epstein–Tzaferis; l.7: υἱ[ῶν] Epstein–Tzaferis, γ̣[ον(έων)] Łajtar, τ̣[έκνων] Di Segni (apud SEG); ll.8-9: ἐν μην(ὶ) Ἰανουαρ(ίῳ) δʹ, θʹ | [ἰν(δικτιῶνος)] Łajtar.
Fragmentary dated dedicatory and commemorative mosaic building inscription, in front of the northern apse of the baptistery, Jan. 591.
Year 654 of the Pompeian era = 591 AD.
Łajtar suggests "on the 4th of the month of January, indiction 9."