Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.223. Dedication of a caryatid(?) by Tryphe

Description: Upper part of a white marble statue base with egg and dart moulding above on three sides, (w: 0.55–0.65 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.16).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.042

Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: 'devant la grande entrée'

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico, south-west corner

Interpretive

Τρύφη Μηνο-
δ̣ό̣[τ]ο̣[υ τ]ο̣ῦ̣
[Νεικομάχου?]
[------]

Diplomatic

ΤΡΥΦΗΜΗΝΟ
..[.].[..]..
[..........]
[------]

Apparatus

Boulanger suggests (P(eut)ê(tre) du mème) that this is from the same base as 5.224, with which it was found.

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Tryphe (scil. daughter) of Menodotos, the son of [Nikomachos dedicated to the People?]

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

Tryphe, daughter of Menodotos son of [Nikomachos] (set up the statue) [to the demos/patris].

Bibliography

Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 57, no 13a (first lines), whence B 15, no.19; New York University expedition in 1969, Portico of Tiberius 4, Find 41

Publication: Smith, 2007 B 17 (description)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1969)

Fig. 2. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1969)

Fig. 3. Boulanger Notebook A, Page 57

Fig. 4. Boulanger Notebook B, Page 15