Description:
Upper panel with simple moulding above (W. 0.45 × H. 0.30 × D. 0.32) which formed the upper part of a false 'base'.
Text:
Inscribed on the face below moulding.
Letters:
1st century A.D.; l.1, 0.042; l.2, 0.045
Date:
1st century A.D. (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Sebasteion: W. Seb. II 81, surface, in stable wall.
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1981 (81.163)
Bibliography:
Published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 50-77, 55.no.10, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 915 .
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1Ἔθνο[υς]
2Καλλαικῶ[ν]
1ΕΘΝΟ[··]
2ΚΑΛΛΑΙΚΩ[·]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἔθνο
<supplied reason="lost" >
υς
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
Καλλαικῶ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

People of the Callaeci

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 (1983)
 Face (1983)

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