Description: False 'base' in relief with simple moulding above, and a central mask in relief (w: 1.28–1.53 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.78)
Text: Inscribed on the face, a to the left, b to the right of central mask
Letters: First century CE; a: 0.045; b: line 1, 0.045; ll 2-3, 0.04-0.05; lines 5-6, 0.03-0.035.
Date: Julio-Claudian (archaeological context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Sebasteion, South Portico: E. Seb. 80/1, II B, at -3.2
Original location: Sebasteion, South Portico
Last recorded location: Museum (1980)
Apparatus
b.1: Nero's name was apparently incorrectly cut, in the dative; it was later erased but remains legible.
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2013
Armenia. Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
(a): Armenia.
(b): Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, 80.168
Publication: Reynolds, 1981b 10 , whence SEG 31.920 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.356 , , AE 1982.892.e; Smith, 1987 7 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 919 ; IAph2007 9.14; Smith, 2013 C-base 10, whence SEG 63.853.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)