Description:
Upper panel with simple moulding above which formed the upper part of a false 'base', cut down for re-use (W. 0.62 × H. 0.17 × D. 0.42)
Text:
Inscribed on the face below moulding.
Letters:
1st century A.D.; 0.05; traces of over-cutting of some of the letters
Date:
1st century A.D. (lettering, context).
Findspot:
Theatre
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum (1978)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.81)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.20, whence SEG 31, 1981.929, BE 1982.356, mentioned SEG 35.1082; by Smith, JRS 78, 1988, 55, no. 13 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 907
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1981).
1 v. ἔθνους v.
2Τρουνπείλω[ν]
1 ΕΘΝΟΥΣ 
2ΤΡΟΥΝΠΕΙΛΩ[·]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ἔθνους
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
Τρουνπείλω
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

People of the Trumpilini

Commentary:

One of the series of false bases from the Sebasteion: see 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.On Tromplini see R. Frei-Stolba, Jahresbericht 1993 des Rätischen Museums Chur (Coire, 1994), 64-86

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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