9.5. Title for image of the Egyptians
- Description:
- White marble false 'base' in relief; fragment of upper element (W. 0.55 × H. 0.88) with remains of sculpture above: part of a draped figure, with the rear part of a small feline beside it. The fragment has been cut down for re-use.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering, context).
- Findspot:
- Theatre
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1981)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.398)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 1, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 909; mentioned SEG 1985.1082.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 vv. [ἔθν]ους [ vv. ]
- 2 vv. Αἰγυ̣[πτίων vv. ]
- 1 [···]ΟΥΣ[··]
- 2 ΑΙΓ·[····· ··]
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ἔθν
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ους
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Αἰγ
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υ
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πτίων
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Translation:
People of the Egy[ptians].
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 (1981)
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- Face (1981)
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