Description:
False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a bearded male mask flanked by garlands in relief.
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 (198?)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1981 (no inventory number ?)
Bibliography:
Published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 94, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 914 .
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 ἔθνους
2 Ἰουδαίων
1ΕΘΝΟΥΣ
2ΙΟΥΔΑΙΩΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἔθνους
<lb n="2" />
Ἰουδαίων
</ab>

Translation:

People of the Jews

Commentary:

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

Photographs:

Detail (1981)
 Detail (1981)

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