Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.707. Honours for Tryphe

Description: A plain white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.39 × h: 0.90 × d: 0.37).

Text: Inscribed on the face; the block is complete above, and there is a generous space above line 1, but there is likely to have been an introductory formula, which must have begun ion a crowning feature

Letters: 0.03

Date: Possibly early second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: reused in the Walls, South (west part), near 12.719, west of the area excavated in 1975

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)

Interpretive

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Τρύφην Μη
νοδότου στε-
φανηφόρον

Diplomatic

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ΤΡΥΦΗΝΜΗ
ΝΟΔΟΤΟΥΣΤΕ
ΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΝ

Apparatus

1: ΤΡΥΦ Ν Doublet and Deschamps, 1887; Τρύφ[ω]ν[α] Doublet and Deschamps, 1890

Translation

[--- honoured?] Tryphe daughter of Menodotos, stephanephoros.

Bibliography

Transcription: Doublet and Deschamps, 1887; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1973

Publication: Doublet and Deschamps, 1890 11 ; MAMA 8 467 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 331 , Smith, 2006 H.248 (listed); IAph2007 12.707.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)