9.15. Title for images of Rome and Earth

Description:
False 'base' in relief with simple moulding above, and a central flower in relief (W. 1.28-W. 1.53 × H. 0.42 × D. 0.78)
Text:
Inscribed on the face, a to the left, b to the right of central flower
Letters:
1st century A.D.; 0.04
Date:
1st-century A.D. (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, II A, at -1.6
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum (1980)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.169)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.7, whence SEG 31 1981.917, BullEp 1982.356, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 897 ; mentioned SEG 35.1082.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
1 Ῥώμη
1 Γῆ
1ΡΩΜΗ
1ΓΗ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ῥώμη
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Γῆ
</ab>

Translation:

a: Rome. b: Earth

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 (Jstor), Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988) 50-77.

Photographs:

Face (1980)
 Face (1980)
Face (1980)
 Face (1980)

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