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Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base, with mouldings above and below on three sides (0.65 × 0.35 × 0.595), broken at the left corner and lower edge, and chipped to right. The statue has been published (see bibliography)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.04

Date

Julio-Claudian (context, lettering)

Edition Αἰμίλιαν Λεπίδαν Μάρκου Λεπίδου θυγατέρα
Translation

(Statue of) Aemilia Lepida, daughter of Aemilius Lepidus.

Commentary

One of the Sebasteion group of dedications to the imperial family (9.37=72.224, 9.38=72.237, 9.39=72.275, 9.40=73.145, 9.33=77.123, 9.26=80.172, 9.27=82.108, 9.35=82.109, 9.28=82.116, 9.34=82.117, 9.29=82.118, 9.36=82.210, 9.30=84.30, 9.31=84.31, and 9.32=84.41). On these see Reynolds (1996), Ruler-cult at Aphrodisias.

Locations

Tetrastoon, reused in the Byzantine wall across the east of the Theatre. MuseumSebasteion, where the statue was found.

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1982 (82.210; SBI 86)

Bibliography

Published, with the statue, by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, no. 81.

Photographs

Face (1973)