9.113. Sculptor's signature: [?Kobla]nos
- Description:
- White marble bust of a boy, on a simple plinth: for publication, see bibliography.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the plinth.
- Letters:
- 0.015.
- Date:
- Middle or late 1st century A.D. (sculpture)
- Findspot:
- Area north of the Sebasteion, with 9.125.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1981 (81.113)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Erim-Reynolds, 'Sculptors' no.12, whence SEG 40 1990.935. Published, with the bust, by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, no. 110
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1991).
- 1[·· ? ··]νος ἐπο(ί)ει
- 1[ - - - ]ΝΟΣΕΠΟΕΙ
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
νος
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐπο
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
ί
</supplied>
<abbr>
</expan>
ει
</abbr>
Translation:
[...] son of [...] n (perhaps Zenon), made (this)
or
[Kobla]nos made (it)
Commentary:
See Erim-Reynolds, loc. cit., suggesting [...] son of [...] n (perhaps Zenon), made (this). Smith considers, however, that there is no room for a name and patronymic, and prefers to see this as the end of a name in the nominative: he proposes the already known sculptor, Koblanos.
Photographs:
- Bust (1985)
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- Detail (1985)
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