9.13. Title for image of Armenia
- Description:
- False 'base' in relief with simple moulding above, and a central flower in relief (W. 1.28-W. 1.53 × H. 0.42 × D. 0.78)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face, to the right of central flower
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.; 0.05
- Date:
- 1st century A.D. (lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, II B, at -3.5
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.161)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.11, whence SEG 31 1981.921, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 118, note 93, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 898 .
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 Ἀρμενία
- 1ΑΡΜΕΝΙΑ
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Ἀρμενία
Translation:
Armenia
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 (1980)
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