<rs type="textType">Title</rs> for images of Armenia and Nero

Joyce M. Reynolds 1981

Creative Commons licence Attribution 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)

All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/

Originally published in Reynolds (1981).

 English French German Ancient Greek Transliterated Greek Modern Greek Italian Latin Spanish Turkish AsiaTurkeyAphrodisiasGeyreImperial 2006-12-11Charlotte Tupmanhand tidied GBhand tidied 2006-11-07Elliott HallBatch converted Word2XML
Description of Monument

False 'base' in relief with simple moulding above, and a central mask in relief (1.28-1.53 × 0.42 × 0.78)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, a to the left, b to the right of central mask

Letters

1st century A.D.; a: 0.045; b: l.1, 0.045; ll 2-3, 0.04-0.05; ll. 5-6, 0.03-0.035.

Date

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

Edition Ἀρμενία Νέρωνι Κλαύδιος Δροῦσος Καῖσαρ Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικός
Apparatus

b. 1, Nero's name was apparently incorrectly cut, in the dative; it was later erased but remains legible.

Translation

a: Armenia.

b: Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

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, Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987) 88-138.

Locations

Sebasteion: E. Seb. 80/1, II B, at -3.2 Sebasteion Museum (1980)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (80.168)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no. 10, whence SEG 31 1981.920, BullEp 1982.356; mentioned SEG 35.1082; published by Smith, JRS 77 (1987), 55, no. 7, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 919 .

Photographs

Face (1980)
Face (1980)