Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

9.113. Sculptor's signature : [Kobla(?)]nos

Description: White marble bust of a boy, on a simple plinth.

Text: Inscribed on the plinth.

Letters: 0.015.

Date: Middle or late first century CE (sculpture)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Area north of the Sebasteion, with 9.125.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[---]νος ἐπο<ί>ει

Diplomatic

[---]ΝΟΣΕΠΟΕΙ

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2006

[Kobla]nos made (it)

English translation

Translation source: Erim and Reynolds, 1989

[...] son of [...]n (perhaps Zenon), made (this)

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 81.113

Publication: Erim, 1982a 301 (mention); Erim and Reynolds, 1989 12, whence SEG 40.935 ; Smith, 2006 110 (with the bust); IAph2007 9.113.

Images

Fig. 1. Bust (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 2. Detail (M. Roueché, 1985)