Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

9.42. Title for images of Nero and Helios

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: 0.035

Date: 54-68 A.D. (reign)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Sebasteion, South Portico

Original location: Sebasteion, South Portico

Last recorded location: Museum (1980)

Interpretive

a
⟦Νέρων⟧ Κλαύδιος
Δροῦσος Καῖσαρ
Σεβασστός
b
Ἥλιος

Diplomatic

a
⟦ΝΕΡΩΝ⟧ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ
ΔΡΟΥΣΟΣΚΑΙΣΑΡ
ΣΕΒΑΣΣΤΟΣ
b
ΗΛΙΟΣ

Apparatus

b.1: Nero's name was later erased but remains legible.

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2013

Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus. Helios

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

(a): Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus. (b): Helios

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 80.156

Publication: Reynolds, 1981b 9 , whence SEG 31.919 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.356 , AE 1982.892.d, McCabe, PHI, 1996 918 ; mentioned SEG 35.1082 IAph2007 9.42; Smith, 2013 C-base 8, whence SEG 63.853.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)