{"id":22733,"date":"2026-03-15T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=22733"},"modified":"2026-03-15T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:54:22","slug":"northerners-captives-in-the-reliefs-from-the-sebasteion-at-aphrodisias-mid-first-century-ce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2026\/03\/northerners-captives-in-the-reliefs-from-the-sebasteion-at-aphrodisias-mid-first-century-ce\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans and other northerners: Captives in the reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_22737\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22737\" class=\"wp-image-22737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia-1087x1536.jpg 1087w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia-624x882.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z-Armed-Roma-Maia.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[S3 for presentation] Sculpture of the goddess Roma with a bound and naked kneeling captive to the left (Smith C24; photo by Maia Kotrosits).<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_22735\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SouthA-05-Emperor-and-Roman-Senate-or-People-Maia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22735\" class=\"wp-image-22735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SouthA-05-Emperor-and-Roman-Senate-or-People-Maia-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SouthA-05-Emperor-and-Roman-Senate-or-People-Maia-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SouthA-05-Emperor-and-Roman-Senate-or-People-Maia-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SouthA-05-Emperor-and-Roman-Senate-or-People-Maia-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SouthA-05-Emperor-and-Roman-Senate-or-People-Maia-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SouthA-05-Emperor-and-Roman-Senate-or-People-Maia.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[S4 for presentation] Sculpture of a nude imperial figure alongside the Roman People or Senate personified, with a distraught captive young woman to the left (Smith C18; photo by Maia Kotrosits).<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,221,299,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-03-visual-ethnography-via-archeology","category-a-northern-peoples","category-ancient-ethnography-ethnographic-culture","category-germanic-peoples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22742,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions\/22742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}