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The Imperial Reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias*
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In 1979, during his continuing excavation of the city of Aphrodisias, Professor K. T. Erim discovered a large temple and sanctuary complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors (the Theoi Sebastoi). It had a remarkable sculptural display of which much has survived—there are about eighty relief panels. The complex would probably have been called a Sebasteion: we know from an unrelated inscription that there was one at Aphrodisias. It is of great interest to both the historian and art-historian of the early empire, giving a rare combination of buildings, sculpture, and inscriptions from a unified excavated context and providing an unrivalled picture of the physical setting of the imperial cult in a Greek city. The sculptured reliefs give a great range and combination of iconography quite unexpected in such a context—mythological, allegorical, and imperial. The myth panels seem to offer a missing link between the iconographic repertoire of the Hellenistic world and that used under the Roman empire, while the allegorical and imperial panels give a detailed plcture of the emperor and Rome as seen from the Greek East that is not available elsewhere.
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68 BMC Augustus, pl. 37. 1 and 3; cf. pl. 34. 3. (no lock behind ear); Trillmich (n. 67), pl. 43b–c.
69 Further on Agrippina's portraits under no. 11.
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92 So Reynolds, ibid.
93 Reynolds, ibid., no. II, pl. 12f.
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99 For this type, see below, n. 125.
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104 Polacco, Volto (n. 102), 125–45; Zanker, F. Z. 1,nos 12–13.
105 Erim, fig. 115c.
106 Tiberius Gemellus, a.d. 19—37, and Gemanicus Gemellus, a.d. 19–23. They appear as baby boys in facing cornucopia busts on coins of 22—3; Kent-Hir-mer, , Roman Coins (1978), no. 156.Google Scholar
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108 Reynolds, Fest. Pippidi, n. 22.
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111 Corinth 136: Zanker, ibid., pl. 35b.
112 It is possible, however, that Nero was added to the Armenia composition a little later: see no. 7 above.
113 Fittschen, Kat. Erbach, nos 18–19; P. Erhardt, AJA 82 (1978), 193–212
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117 On these portraits (of the ‘Salus’/’Ceres’ type): Zanker, F.Z. III, no. 3. Three good and varied examples in Copenhagen (NCG 618, 617, 531): Poulsen, PR, nos 36–8. The hypothetical intricacies of recent Livia typologies need not concern us; we need only to distinguish the two basic hairstyle options for her images, the ‘real’ or fashion hairstyle and the ideal hairstyle.
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121 Erim, figs 4a, 21a, 32a (heads), 122b (panel).
122 Daremberg-Saglio, s.v. calceus, 816–17, fig-1016.
123 Niemeyer, Studien (n. 41), 51, nos 37 (Nero) and43 (Titus), pls 21. 1 and 13. Cf. Fittschen, BJb 170 (1970), 545, for interpretation.
124 Compare the helmet worn by, (1) Mars on the Augustus Boscoreale cup: Andreae, Art of Rome, figs 303–4; (2) Mars on the cuirass of the Cherchel statue: above n. 54; (3) Minerva on Cancelleria Relief A: Magi, F., I rilievi Flavi (1945), pl. 11.Google Scholar
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128 BMC Augustus, pl. 38. 1–6, gf; Hiesinger (n. 125), pl. 17. 1–6.
127 Rome, from Palatine: Felletti, Ritratti (n. 43), no. 108; Hiesinger (n. 125), pl. 23, figs 37–8. Rome, Capltoline: F.Z. 1, no. 17 = here Pl. XXVI, 3. Sardinia (Cagliari): Hiesinger, pl. 21, figs 33–4. Asia Minor (Stratonicea): IR 1, no. 24.
128 Coins: BMC Augustus, pls 39–48. Cf. Bergmann Zanker, JdI 96 (1981), 322–32.
129 FZ 1, no. 17.
130 Felletti, Ritratti (n. 43), no. 123; Hiesinger(n. 125), pl. 24, figs 43–4.
131 See above, n. 79.
132 Versions grouped round Copenhagen 636 (herePl. XXVI, 4) and a head in Ancona: Trillmich (n. 67),pl. 39; Zanker, F. Z. III, on no. 5. Cf. Trillmich (n. 118),arguing that the related Fulda 22/Munich 316 group of sculptured and cameo portraits (formerly Messalina or a sister of Caligula) are also Agrippina the Younger.
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134 (1) Stuttgart: Hausmann, Römerbildnisse (n. 77),no. 8; (2) Petworth: FZ in, Beil. 6.
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