Description: A group of nine 'shield busts', of which numbers 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are inscribed; 5 is grey marble; the rest are white marble.
Text: Inscribed on the rim below the bust.
Letters: 1, 3, 7, 0.045; 6, 0.04; 5, 0.03.
Date: Late fifth century. (style, lettering, context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Sebasteion excavations: lying behind apse in Atrium House
Original location: Mounted in the apse: Smith (1990), 129-30
Last recorded location: Museum (1985)
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(1). Pindar
(3). Alcibiades
(5). Aristotle
(6). Pythagoras
(7). Apollonius
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition· 1: 81.115; 3:81.136; 5: 81.97; 6: 81.135; 7: 81.114
Publication: Smith, 1991 , whence SEG 40.950 , BE 1991.519 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 516 ; ALA 2004 251 ; IAph2007 9.125.
Images
Fig. 1. 1. Pindar (M. Roueché, 1981)
Fig. 2. 3. Alcibiades (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 3. 5. Aristotle (M. Roueché, 1981)
Fig. 4. 6. Pythagoras (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 5. 7. Apollonios (M. Roueché, 1985)