9.125. Titles on philosopher portraits
- Description:
- A group of nine 'shield busts', of which numbers 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are inscribed; 5 is grey marble; the rest are white marble. For full description see Smith (1990), especially 132-147.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the rim below the bust.
- Letters:
- 1, 3, 7, 0.045; 6, 0.04; 5, 0.03.
- Date:
- Late fifth century (style, lettering, context).
- Findspot:
- Sebasteion excavations: lying behind apse in Atrium House
- Original Location:
- Mounted in the apse: Smith (1990), 129-30
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1985)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1981: 1: 81.115; 3:81.136; 5: 81.97; 6: 81.135; 7: 81.114.
- Bibliography:
- Published by •R. R. R. Smith (1990) 127, whence SEG 1990.950, BE 1991.519, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 516 (1 only); discussed, R. R. R. Smith, ''Late Roman philosophers'', Aphrodisias Papers 2, 144-167; republished by •Roueché (2004), 251.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1Πίνδαρος
- 1 Ἀλκιβιάδης
- 1 Ἀριστοτέλης
- 1 Πυθαγόρας
- 1 Ἀπολλώνιος
- 1ΠΙΝΔΑΡΟΣ
- 1 ΑΛΚΙΒΙΑΔΗΣ
- 1 ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ
- 1 ΠΥΘΑΓΟΡΑΣ
- 1 ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ
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Πίνδαρος
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Ἀλκιβιάδης
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Ἀριστοτέλης
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Πυθαγόρας
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Ἀπολλώνιος
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Translation:
1. Pindar
3. Alcibiades
5. Aristotle
6. Pythagoras
7. Apollonius
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 V.14.
Photographs:
- Text 1 (1981)
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- Text 3 (1985)
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- Text 5 (1981)
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- Text 6 (1985)
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- Text 7 (1985)
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