9.22. Title for image of People of the Iapodes
- Description:
- False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a beardless male mask (damaged) with horns flanked by garlands in relief.
- Text:
- Inscribed on upper element
- Letters:
- 1st century A.D.;
- Date:
- 1st century A.D.(lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion: NW POR I-82, IIIC, 0.70
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1982 (82.112)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 50-77, 55.no.8, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 913 .
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 ἔθνους
- 2 Ἰαποδων
- 1ΕΘΝΟΥΣ
- 2ΙΑΠΟΔΩΝ
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ἔθνους
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Ἰαποδων
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Translation:
People of the Iapodes
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.
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