9.14. Title for images of Armenia and Nero
- Description:
- False 'base' in relief with simple moulding above, and a central mask in relief (W. 1.28-W. 1.53 × H. 0.42 × D. 0.78)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face, a to the left, b to the right of central mask
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.; a: 0.045; b: l.1, 0.045; ll 2-3, 0.04-0.05; ll. 5-6, 0.03-0.035.
- Date:
- 1st century A.D. (lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, II B, at -3.2
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.168)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no. 10, whence SEG 31 1981.920, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 77 (1987), 55, no. 7, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 919 .
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 Ἀρμενία
- 1 [[Νέρων{ι}]]
- 2 Κλαύδιος
- 3 Δροῦσος
- 4 Καῖσαρ Σεβ-
- 5αστὸς Γε-
- 6ρμανικός stop
- 1ΑΡΜΕΝΙΑ
- 1 [[ΝΕΡΩΝΙ]]
- 2ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ
- 3ΔΡΟΥΣΟΣ
- 4ΚΑΙΣΑΡΣΕΒ
- 5ΑΣΤΟΣΓΕ
- 6ΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΣ stop
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Ἀρμενία
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Νέρων
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ι
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Κλαύδιος
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Δροῦσος
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Καῖσαρ
Σεβ
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αστὸς
Γε
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ρμανικός
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Apparatus
b. 1, Nero's name was apparently incorrectly cut, in the dative; it was later erased but remains legible.
Translation:
a: Armenia.
b: Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus.
Commentary:
One of the false bases supporting imperial reliefs in the Sebasteion. See Reynolds loc. cit., and R.R.R. Smith, The imperial reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987) 88-138.
Photographs:
- Face (1980)
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- Face (1980)
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