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Joyce M. Reynolds 1981

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Originally published in Reynolds (1981).

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Description of Monument

False 'base' in relief comprising upper and lower elements; lower element has a bearded male mask flanked by garlands in relief. The base was repaired in antiquity, and there are clamp marks.

Description of Text

Inscribed on upper element

Letters

1st century A.D.

Date

1st-century A.D. (lettering, context)

Edition ἔθνους Βέσσων
Translation

People of the Bessi

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 (Jstor), Journal of Roman Studies 78 (1988) 50-77.

Locations

Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/2, at -3.0 Sebasteion Museum (1983)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.149)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.18, whence SEG 31 1981.927, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 78 (1988), 55, no. 4, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 905 .

Photographs

Face (1983)
Face (1983)
Detail (1981)