Description:
Upper panel with simple moulding above (W. 0.45 × H. 0.30 × D. 0.32) which formed the upper part of a false 'base'.
Text:
Inscribed on the face below moulding.
Letters:
1st century A.D.; 0.045
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, at -2.0
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum (1983)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.151)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.16, whence SEG 31 1981.925, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 16, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 903 .
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
1 Σικελία
1ΣΙΚΕΛΙΑ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Σικελία
</ab>

Translation:

Sicily.

Commentary:

Joins base 80.148. One of the series of false bases from the Sebasteion: see R. R. R. Smith, Simulacra gentium: The Ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988) 50-77.

Photographs:

Face (1983)
 Face (1983)

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