Description:
False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements, broken on both sides and below; lower element has a bearded male mask flanked by garlands in relief.
Text:
Inscribed on upper element
Letters:
1st century A.D.; 0.045
Date:
1st century A.D. (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Sebasteion: NW POR I-82, VIA, 1.70.
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1982 (82.113)
Bibliography:
Published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 50-77, 55.no.11, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 916 .
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 ἔθνους
2 Πιρουστων
1ΕΘΝΟΥΣ
2ΠΙΡΟΥΣΤΩΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἔθνους
<lb n="2" />
Πιρουστων
</ab>

Translation:

People of the Pirousti

Commentary:

One of the series of false bases from the Sebasteion: see Smith, loc. cit..

Photographs:

Face (1983)
 Face (1983)

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