9.42. Title for images of Nero and Helios
- 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, a to the left, b to the right of central mask
- Letters:
- 0.035
- Date:
- 54-68 A.D. (lettering, emperor)
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion:
- Original Location:
- Sebasteion
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.?)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no. 9, whence SEG 31 1981.919, BullEp 1982.356, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 918 ; mentioned SEG 35.1082.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1 [[Νέρων]] Κλαύδιος
- 2 Δροῦσος Καῖσαρ
- 3 Σεβασστός
- 1 Ἥλιος
- 1 [[ΝΕΡΩΝ]]ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ
- 2ΔΡΟΥΣΟΣΚΑΙΣΑΡ
- 3ΣΕΒΑΣΣΤΟΣ
- 1ΗΛΙΟΣ
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Νέρων
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Κλαύδιος
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Δροῦσος
Καῖσαρ
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Σεβασστός
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Ἥλιος
Apparatus
b. 1, Nero's name was later erased but remains legible.
Translation:
a: Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus. b: Helios
Commentary:
One of the false bases supporting imperial reliefs in the Sebasteion. See Reynolds loc. cit., and R. R. R. Smith, The imperial reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (Jstor), Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987) 88-138.
- Photographs:
- none.
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