9.10. Title for image of Cyprus
- Description:
- False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a youthful smiling 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 -2.0
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.150)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.15, whence SEG 31 1981.924, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 15, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 902 .
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 Κύπρος
- 1ΚΥΠΡΟΣ
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Κύπρος
Translation:
Cyprus
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.
- Photographs:
- none.
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