9.2. Title for image of people of the Rhaeti
- Description:
- Upper panel with simple moulding above which formed the upper part of a false 'base', cut down for re-use (W. 0.62 × H. 0.17 × D. 0.42).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face below moulding.
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.; 0.07; traces of over-cutting of some of the letters.
- Date:
- 1st-century A.D. (lettering, context).
- Findspot:
- Theatre
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.55)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.19, whence SEG 31, 1981.928, BE 1982.356, mentioned SEG 35.1082; by Smith, JRS 78, 1988, 55, no. 12 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 906
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 ἔθνους v.
- 2 Ῥαιτῶν v.
- 1ΕΘΝΟΥΣ
- 2ΡΑΙΤΩΝ
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ἔθνους
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Ῥαιτῶν
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unit="character"
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</ab>
Translation:
People of the Rhaeti.
Commentary:
One of the series of false bases from the Sebasteion: see Reynolds, loc. cit., and R. R. R. Smith, Simulacra gentium: The Ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988) 50-77.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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