Inventory No. 100 (last item)

4. Terra Cotta fragments, one w/painted black lines. 1 pc. of marble, 18 pc of mosaie tesserae of different sizes. 1 pc. of mosaic, showing its cement-like base, a 2 free ments of the same base. Gifts to J. Crockett, U.S.賓. Tunc, Tundis, May 5, 1973 from the Arab/berber grandfather of his embassy driver, Kassoum. These items came from Roman II & III century tombs & tombs he un-anchored while ploughing his farmland, now the great Colosseum of El Dime (3rd largest in the classical world) to plant semolina wheat for couscous. In Roman times the place was the City of Thessalus.

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