9.15. Title for images of Rome and Earth
- 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, a to the left, b to the right of central flower
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.; 0.04
- Date:
- 1st-century A.D. (lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, II A, at -1.6
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.169)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.7, whence SEG 31 1981.917, BullEp 1982.356, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 897 ; mentioned SEG 35.1082.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 Ῥώμη
- 1 Γῆ
- 1ΡΩΜΗ
- 1ΓΗ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ῥώμη
</ab>
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Γῆ
Translation:
a: Rome. b: Earth
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.
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