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
</ab>
<ab>
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Ἀλκιβιάδης
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀριστοτέλης
</ab>
<ab>
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Πυθαγόρας
</ab>
<ab>
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Ἀπολλώνιος
</ab>

Translation:

1. Pindar

3. Alcibiades

5. Aristotle

6. Pythagoras

7. Apollonius

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 V.14.

Photographs:

Text 1 (1981)
 Text 1 (1981)
Text 3 (1985)
  Text 3 (1985)
Text 5 (1981)
 Text 5 (1981)
Text 6 (1985)
 Text 6 (1985)
Text 7 (1985)
 Text 7 (1985)

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