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 A.D. (nomenclature, paternal nomen)
Findspot:
Walls, South-east: apparently in the stretch near 12.528 (=CIG 2770), 12.531 (=2821)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Copied by Sherard (10101, 14) and Picenini (10102, 25 and 75v) in 1705,. Not reported subsequently
Bibliography:
Published by Boeckh, from Sherard papers, CIG 2794, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 546 .
Text constituted from:
publications; Sherard papers This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [···]
2 Τρύφωνος τοῦ Τρύ-
3φωνος τοῦ Ζήνω-
4νος γ´ τοῦ Χρυσίπ-
5που τοῦ Αἰνείου
6 ἄνδρα εὐγενείᾳ
7 καὶ ἤθει σεμνῷ
8 διενενκόντα ζή̣̣-
9σαντα κοσμίως
10 καὶ αἰδημόνως
11 πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα
12 ἀρετῆς καὶ ἐπαι-
13νεθέντα ἐφ'αἷς
14 μεγαλοψύχως ἐ-
15ξετέλεσε ἀρχαῖς
16 καὶ λειτου<ρ>γίαις
17 vac.
18 ἔστησε Αὐρ(ήλιος)
19 Τρύφων ὁ πατήρ leaf
1[···]
2ΤΡΥΦΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΤΡΥ
3ΦΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΖΗΝΩ
4ΝΟΣΓΤΟΥΧΡΥΣΙΠ
5ΠΟΥΤΟΥΑΙΝΕΙΟΥ
6ΑΝΔΡΑΕΥΓΕΝΕΙΑ
7ΚΑΙΗΘΕΙΣΕΜΝΩ
8ΔΙΕΝΕΝΚΟΝΤΑΖ·̣
9ΣΑΝΤΑΚΟΣΜΙΩΣ
10ΚΑΙΑΙΔΗΜΟΝΩΣ
11ΠΡΟΣΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑ
12ΑΡΕΤΗΣΚΑΙΕΠΑΙ
13ΝΕΘΕΝΤΑΕΦ'ΑΙΣ
14ΜΕΓΑΛΟΨΥΧΩΣΕ
15ΞΕΤΕΛΕΣΕΑΡΧΑΙΣ
16ΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥΓΙΑΙΣ
17   
18ΕΣΤΗΣΕΑΥΡ
19ΤΡΥΦΩΝΟΠΑΤΗΡ leaf
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Τρύφωνος
τοῦ
Τρύ
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φωνος
τοῦ
Ζήνω
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νος
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γ
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τοῦ
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που
τοῦ
Αἰνείου
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ἄνδρα
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καὶ
ἤθει
σεμνῷ
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διενενκόντα
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̣
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σαντα
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ἀρετῆς
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ἐπαι
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νεθέντα
ἐφ'αἷς
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μεγαλοψύχως
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ξετέλεσε
ἀρχαῖς
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καὶ
λειτου
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ρ
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γίαις
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<lb n="18" />
ἔστησε
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<abbr>
Αὐρ
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ήλιος
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Τρύφων
πατήρ
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Apparatus

l. 7, ΖΙ Sherard

l. 15, ΛΕΙΤΟΥΓ Sherard, ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓ Picenini

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.

Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
none.

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