1.35. Place inscription of Tryphon, chief decanus
- Description:
- White marble column (diam. 0.67).
- Text:
- The inscription is cut on the east face; the surface is chipped and very worn.
- Letters:
- ll. 1-4 are deeply cut, 0.03-0.05. Lines 5 ff. seem to be from a separate text, cut lightly within a lightly incised tabella ansata; they can just be made out, c. 0.02, but are almost completely illegible.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century or later (content, location)
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: temenos, east side, south end; just north of 1.11.
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (114); by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach, no. 218, whence Grégoire, IGC 269; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 188 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 687, 893.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross [?τόπος]
- 2 Τρύφωνος
- 3 ἀρχιδεκά-
- 4νου cross .
- 1[·· ? ··] cross cross
- 2[·· ? ··]Ρ̣[·]Ι̣?
- 3[·· ? ··]Τ̣Ω̣Ο[··]
- 4[·· ? ··]Ν cross
- 1 cross [·····]
- 2ΤΡΥΦΩΝΟΣ
- 3ΑΡΧΙΔΕΚΑ
- 4ΝΟΥ cross
- 1[ - - - ] cross cross
- 2[ - - - ]·[·]·?
- 3[ - - - ]··Ο[··]
- 4[ - - - ]Ν cross
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
τόπος
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Τρύφωνος
<lb
n="3"
/>
ἀρχιδεκά
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
νου
<g
type="cross"
/>
.
</ab>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ρ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
?
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τω
</unclear>
ο
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ν
</orig>
<g
type="cross"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
i. [Place] of Tryphon, chief decanus.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.5 and ala2004 XI. 8.
Photographs:
- Detail (1972)
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