Description:
White marble statue base (W. 0.76 × H. 0.365 × D. 0.65) with moulding.
Text:
Inscribed on the face (area W. 0.695 × H. 0.20).
Letters:
ave 0.035-0.04
Date:
Julio-Claudian (context, lettering)
Findspot:
In front of the Propylon of the Sebasteion; 'SEB. W.Pro. I-84, V-E'.
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Dighouse garden
History of discovery:
Found by the NYU expedition during excavation of the Sebasteion in 1984 (84.30; SBI 73)
Bibliography:
Mentioned by Reynolds, Clas 24, 1986, 112; by Smith, JRS 77, 1987, 95, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 198
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 Τιβέριον
2Κλαύδιον
3Δροῦ<σ>ον
1ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ
2ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΝ
3ΔΡΟΥΟΝ
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Τιβέριον
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Κλαύδιον
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Δροῦ
<supplied reason="omitted" >
σ
</supplied>
ον
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 3, Ε lapis

Translation:

(Statue of) Tiberius Claudius Drusus

Commentary:

One of the Sebasteion group of dedications to the imperial family (9.37=72.224, 9.38=72.237, 9.39=72.275, 9.40=73.145, 9.33=77.123, 9.26=80.172, 9.27=82.108, 9.35=82.109, 9.28=82.116, 9.34=82.117, 9.29=82.118, 9.36=82.210, 9.30=84.30, 9.31=84.31, and 9.32=84.41). On these see Reynolds (1996), 'Ruler-cult at Aphrodisias'.

Photographs:

Face (1985)
 Face (1985)

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