Description:
A plain white marble statue base shaft (W. 0.39 × H. 0.90 × D. 0.37).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.03; ligatured ΝΗ in l. 3.
Date:
Possibly early second century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
reused in the Walls, South (west part), near 12.719 (=MAMA 417), west of the area excavated in 1975
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Doublet and Deschamps; Kubitschek and Reichel (no notebook reference); by the MAMA expedition; and by the NYU expedition in 1973.
Bibliography:
Published by Doublet and Deschamps, BCH 14 (1890), no. 11; from the MAMA record and Kubitschek and Reichel by •Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 467 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 331
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
0?·· ? ··]
1Τρύφην Μη
2νοδότου στε-
3φανηφόρον
0?·· ? ··]
1ΤΡΥΦΗΝΜΗ
2ΝΟΔΟΤΟΥΣΤΕ
3ΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΝ
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="iaph2005-gap01" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
Τρύφην
Μη
<lb n="2" />
νοδότου
στε
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
φα
νη
φόρον
</ab>

Translation:

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

Commentary:

That there is rather more space between l. 1 and the top of the block than between ll. 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 suggests the possibility that the text is complete; but it seems more likely that the subject and a verb stood above—no doubt on another stone—very possibly the Council and the People honoured Tryphe. For Tryphe, see Name index.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

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