Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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251. Titles on philosopher portraits

Description

Monument: A group of nine 'shield portraits', of which numbers 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are inscribed; 5 is grey marble; the rest are white marble. For full description see Smith (1990), especially 132-147.
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).

Text

1
	Πίνδαρος
3
	Ἀλκιβιάδης
5
	Ἀριστοτέλης
6
	Πυθαγόρας
7
	Ἀπολλώνιος

Translation

1. Pindar

3. Alcibiades

5. Aristotle

6. Pythagoras

7. Apollonius

Photographs

Text 1 (1981)	Text 3 (1985)	Text 5 (1981)	Text 6 (1985)	Text 7 (1985)

Commentary

See discussion at V.14.

Locations

Found: Atrium House: lying behind apse.
Original: Mounted in the apse: Smith (1990), 129-30.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1981: 1: ; 3:81.136; 5: 81.97; 6: 81.135; 7: 81.114.
Bibliography: Published by •R. R. R. Smith (1990) 127, whence SEG 1990.950, BE 1991.519, PHI 516 (1 only); discussed, R. R. R. Smith, ''Late Roman philosophers'', Aphrodisias Papers 2, 144-167.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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