Description:
Upper panel with simple moulding above which formed the upper part of a false 'base', cut down for re-use (W. 0.58 × H. 0.32 × D. 0.45).
Text:
Inscribed on the face below moulding.
Letters:
1st century A.D.; 0.04
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Theatre
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum (1978)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.74)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.21, whence SEG 1981.930, BE 1982.356, mentioned SEG 1985.1082; by Smith, JRS 78, 1988, 55, no. 3 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 908
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
1[ vv. ] ἔ̣θνους vv.
2[ vac. Ἀρ]ά̣βων vac.
2a[·· c. 8 ··]        vacat
1[··]·ΘΝΟΥΣ  
2[·····]·ΒΩΝ   
2a[········]       vacat
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
θνους
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀρ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
βων
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="8" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
</ab>

Translation:

People of the [Ara]bs.

Commentary:

One of the series of false bases from the Sebasteion: see 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)
 Face (1978)
Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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