9.35. Honours for Aeneas
- Description:
- Left side of a composite white marble statue base with damaged moulding above and below on three sides (W. 0.612 × H. 0.30 × D. 0.55).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face, which is damaged.
- Letters:
- 0.04
- Date:
- Julio-Claudian (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion: NW Seb. II-82, VB, 0.70
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1982 (82.109; SBI 82)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, StudClas 24, 1986, 112, whence BE 1988.884, SEG 1986.989, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 181.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 vacat Αἰνή[αν ? vacat ]
- 2 vacat Ἀνχίσ[ου] ? vacat ]
- 1 ΑΙΝΗ[·· ······]
- 2 ΑΝΧΙΣ[··]······]
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Αἰνή
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αν
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Ἀνχίσ
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ου
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Translation:
(Statue of) Aeneas, son of Anchises
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 (1983)
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