9.20. Title for image of the people of the Dacians

Description:
False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a horned, Pan-like mask flanked by garlands in relief. The base was repaired in antiquity, and there are clamp marks.
Text:
Inscribed on upper element.
Letters:
1st century A.D.
Date:
1st century A.D.(lettering, context)
Findspot:
Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, 1B, at -3.8
Original Location:
Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum (1980)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.145)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.17, whence SEG 31 1981.926, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 6, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 904 .
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
1 ἔθνους
2 Δακῶν
1ΕΘΝΟΥΣ
2ΔΑΚΩΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἔθνους
<lb n="2" />
Δακῶν
</ab>

Translation:

People of the Dacians

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)
 Face (1980)
Face (1983)
 Face (1983)

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