9.9. Title of image of People of the Bessi
- Description:
- False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a bearded male mask flanked by garlands in relief. The base was repaired in antiquity, and there are clamp marks.
- Text:
- Inscribed on upper element
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.
- Date:
- 1st-century A.D. (lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/2, at -3.0
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1983)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.149)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.18, whence SEG 31 1981.927, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 4, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 905 .
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 ἔθνους
- 2 Βέσσων
- 1ΕΘΝΟΥΣ
- 2ΒΕΣΣΩΝ
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ἔθνους
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Βέσσων
Translation:
People of the Bessi
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 (Jstor), Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988) 50-77.
Photographs:
- Face (1983)
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- Face (1983)
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- Detail (1981)
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