Description:
White marble false 'base' in relief; fragment of upper element (W. 0.55 × H. 0.88) with remains of sculpture above: part of a draped figure, with the rear part of a small feline beside it. The fragment has been cut down for re-use.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
1st century A.D.
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering, context).
Findspot:
Theatre
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum (1981)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.398)
Bibliography:
Published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 1, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 909; mentioned SEG 1985.1082.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 vv. [ἔθν]ους [ vv. ]
2 vv. Αἰγυ̣[πτίων vv. ]
1  [···]ΟΥΣ[··]
2  ΑΙΓ·[····· ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἔθν
</supplied>
ους
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Αἰγ
<unclear reason="damage" >
υ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
πτίων
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

People of the Egy[ptians].

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 (1981)
 Face (1981)
Face (1981)
 Face (1981)

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