12.537. Posthumous honours for anonymous, ?son of Tryphon
- 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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νος
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τοῦ
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ἀρετῆς
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νεθέντα
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ἔστησε
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ήλιος
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Τρύφων
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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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