Description: 'On white marble square with mouldings near 2 feet wide and 3 1/2 high, on the ground' (Sherard). (probably a statue base)
Text: No description
Letters: No description
Date: Late second or early third century CE (paternal nomen). (nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: apparently in the stretch near 12.528 (=CIG 2770), 12.531 (=2821)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1705)
Apparatus
7: ΖΙ Sherard, 1705
15: ΛΕΙΤΟΥΓ Sherard, 1705; ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓ Picenini, 1705
Translation
[e.g. the city honoured ...] so-and-so] son of Tryphon, the son of Tryphon the son of Zenon (son of Zenon son of Zenon) son of Chrysippos son of Aeneas, a man notable for his good birth and dignified character; he lived in an orderly and modest way, so as to provide a model of virtue, and was praised for the liturgies and magistracies which he carried out with generosity. Aurelius Tryphon his father set (this) up.
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 25 and 75v; Sherard, 1705 14
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2794 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 546 , Smith, 2006 H.164 (listed); IAph2007 12.537.
Images
Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.6r, at British Library