Description: 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.
Text: Inscribed on upper element
Letters: First century CE
Date: Julio-Claudian (archaeological context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Sebasteion, North Portico: E. Seb. 80/2, at -3.0
Original location: Sebasteion, North Portico
Last recorded location: Museum (1983)
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2013
(Of the) ethnos of the Bessi
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
People of the Bessi
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, 80.149
Publication: Reynolds, 1981b 18 , whence SEG 31.927 , AE 1982.892.m, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.356; Smith, 1988 4 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 905 ; IAph2007 9.9; Smith, 2013 B-base 3, whence SEG 63.850.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 3. Detail (M. Roueché, 1981)