9.36. Honours for Aemilia Lepida
- Description:
- White marble statue base, with mouldings above and below on three sides (W. 0.65 × H. 0.35 × D. 0.595), broken at the left corner and lower edge, and chipped to right. The statue has been published (see bibliography)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.04
- Date:
- Julio-Claudian (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Tetrastoon, reused in the Byzantine wall across the east of the Theatre.
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion, where the statue was found.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1982 (82.210; SBI 86)
- Bibliography:
- Published, with the statue, by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, no. 81.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 Αἰμίλιαν Λεπίδαν
- 2Μάρκου Λεπίδου
- 3 vv. θυγατέρα vv.
- 1ΑΙΜΙΛΙΑΝΛΕΠΙΔΑΝ
- 2ΜΑΡΚΟΥΛΕΠΙΔΟΥ
- 3 ΘΥΓΑΤΕΡΑ
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Translation:
(Statue of) Aemilia Lepida, daughter of Aemilius Lepidus.
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 (1973)
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