9.16. Title for image of Victory of the Augusti
- 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, to the left of central mask.
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.; 0.04
- Date:
- 1st-century A.D. (lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, IIIA, at -2.2
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.170)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.6, whence SEG 31 1981.916, BullEp 1982.356, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 896 ; mentioned by Erim, Britannia 13 (1982), 279, note 13, SEG 35.1082.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 νείκη Σεβαστῶν
- 1ΝΕΙΚΗΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΝ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
νείκη
Σεβαστῶν
</ab>
Translation:
Victory of the Augusti
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, Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988) 50-77.
Photographs:
- Face (1980)
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