Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.35. Place inscription of Tryphon, chief decanus

Description: White marble column (diam. 0.67).

Text: Inscribed ion the east face; the surface is chipped and very worn.

Letters: Lines 1-3 are deeply cut, 0.03-0.05. Lines 5 ff. seem to be from a separate text, cut lightly within a lightly incised tabella ansata; they can just be made out, 0.02, but are almost completely illegible.

Date: Fifth-sixth century or later (content, location)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: Temenos, east side, south end; just north of 1.11.

Original location: Temple/Church: Temenos: findspot.

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
((Cross)) [τόποϲ?]
Τρύφωνοϲ
ἀρχιδεκά-
νου ((Cross)).
ii
[---]((Cross)) ((Cross))
[---]Ρ̣[.]Ι̣
[---]Τ̣Ω̣Ο[..]
[---]Ν ((Cross))

Diplomatic

i
[.....]
ΤΡΥΦΩΝΟϹ
ΑΡΧΙΔΕΚΑ
ΝΟΥ
ii
[---]
[---].[·].
[---]..Ο[··]
[---]Ν

Apparatus

i.1: ΤΑΦΟΝΟ . . Reinach, 1906; Τάφ(ος) Ὁνο[ρίου] Grégoire, IGC, 1922
ii: . . ΨΑΝΟΥ Reinach, 1906

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

(i): [Place] of Tryphon, chief decanus.

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 114; New York University expedition

Publication: Reinach, 1906 218 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 269 ; Roueché, ALA 188 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 687, 893 , ALA 2004 188, IAph2007 1.35.

Images

Fig. 1. Detail (M. Roueché, 1972)