Mosaic with an apotropaic inscription created by Mirko Tasso MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00422 205583 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/422 Algiers, Musée des Antiquités mosaic mosaic complete None None None The mosaic with the inscription comprises "quatre cercles de différents dessins et de diverses couleurs avec sorte de croix noire au milieu, entourée d'un carré blanc ou jaune, puis d'un cercle de ton noir. Les motifs situes à gauche sont symétriques avec ceux de droite" (Ballu 1919, 159). The inscription is situated in the mosaic's central panel. written with mosaic tiles 0.0-0.0 Lambiridi 301-400 Lambiridi 35.5038 6.0773 no

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 Greek Greek-Latin Latin Multilingual Ancient Greek written in Latin script Latin written in Greek script apotropaic inscription

Invide vive et vid e, ut possis plura vi dere.

Text follows CLE 2843. The text scans as a hexameter, but the vi- of vide has been scanned as a long syllable rather than a short one – a known irregularity in African Latin.

O envious man, live and see, so that you can see even more.

CLEAfr 132 CLE 2843 AE 1920, 120 AE 1921, 15 A. Ballu, BCTH (1919), 159. J. Marcillet-Jaubert, Un propriétaire ombrageux, Epigraphica 37 (1975), 158. J. Gómez Pallarès, Carmina Latina epigraphica musiva et depicta non Buecheleriana nec Zarkeriana, Minerva 7 (1993), 194-195. P. Cugusi, "Invidia" e "coppa d'amore". Due temi presenti nei carmi epigrafici, 90 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD027619