Aphrodisias: Sebasteion; Augustus Sebastos (or Claudius?)
“The deified Roman emperor Augustus Sebastos as he was depicted in the Sebasteion (shrine to the imperial cult) at Aphrodisias, Turkey. Note that the museum at Aphrodisias identifies this figure as the emperor Claudius. Shown in a dynamic pose, with Greek-inspired heroic nudity, the highly idealized representation of the emperor is flanked by allegorical beings that represent land (left) and sea (right), the former lifting a cornucopia and the latter a ship’s rudder. Now in the museum at Aphrodisias. Dated to the first century C.E.”











