9.21. Title for image of people of the Bosporoi
- Description:
- False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a beardless male mask flanked by garlands in relief.
- Text:
- Inscribed on upper element
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.
- Date:
- 1st century A.D.(lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1981 (inventory number 81.149)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Smith, JRS 78, 1988, 55, no. 5, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 911 .
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 ἔθνους
- 2 Βοσπόρων.
- 1ΕΘΝΟΥΣ
- 2ΒΟΣΠΟΡΩΝ
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n="1"
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ἔθνους
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n="2"
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Βοσπόρων
.
</ab>
Translation:
People of the Bosporans
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 (1981)
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- Face (1983)
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