Description:
White marble bust of a boy, on a simple plinth: for publication, see bibliography.
Text:
Inscribed on the plinth.
Letters:
0.015.
Date:
Middle or late 1st century A.D. (sculpture)
Findspot:
Area north of the Sebasteion, with 9.125.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1981 (81.113)
Bibliography:
Published by Erim-Reynolds, 'Sculptors' no.12, whence SEG 40 1990.935. Published, with the bust, by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, no. 110
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1991).
1[·· ? ··]νος ἐπο(ί)ει
1[ - - - ]ΝΟΣΕΠΟΕΙ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
νος
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐπο
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ί
</supplied>
<abbr>
ει
</abbr>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

[...] son of [...] n (perhaps Zenon), made (this)

or

[Kobla]nos made (it)

Commentary:

See Erim-Reynolds, loc. cit., suggesting [...] son of [...] n (perhaps Zenon), made (this). Smith considers, however, that there is no room for a name and patronymic, and prefers to see this as the end of a name in the nominative: he proposes the already known sculptor, Koblanos.

Photographs:

Bust (1985)
 Bust (1985)
Detail (1985)
 Detail (1985)

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