False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a beardless male mask flanked by garlands in relief.
Description of Text
Inscribed on upper element
Letters
1st century A.D.
Date
1st century A.D.(lettering, context)
Edition
ἔθνουςΒοσπόρων.
Translation
People of the Bosporans
Commentary
One of the series of false bases from the Sebasteion: see Reynolds, loc. cit., and R. R. R. Smith, Simulacra gentium: The Ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988) 50-77.
Locations
SebasteionSebasteionMuseum
Text Constituted From
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)
History of Recording
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1981 (inventory number 81.149)
Bibliography
Published by Smith, JRS 78, 1988, 55, no. 5, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias911.