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. Text 1 (M. Roueché, 1981)
Fig. 2. Text 3 (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 3. Text 5 (M. Roueché, 1981)
Fig. 4. Text 6 (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 5. Text 7 (M. Roueché, 1985)