9.4. Title for image of the [Ar]abs
- Description:
- Upper panel with simple moulding above which formed the upper part of a false 'base', cut down for re-use (W. 0.58 × H. 0.32 × D. 0.45).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face below moulding.
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.; 0.04
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.74)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.21, whence SEG 1981.930, BE 1982.356, mentioned SEG 1985.1082; by Smith, JRS 78, 1988, 55, no. 3 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 908
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1[ vv. ] ἔ̣θνους vv.
- 2[ vac. Ἀρ]ά̣βων vac.
- 2a[·· c. 8 ··] vacat
- 1[··]·ΘΝΟΥΣ
- 2[·····]·ΒΩΝ
- 2a[········] vacat
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<space
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἔ
</unclear>
θνους
<space
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ἀρ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ά
</unclear>
βων
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="8"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
People of the [Ara]bs.
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.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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- Face (1978)
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