<rs type="textType">Posthumous <rs type="textType">honours</rs></rs> for anonymous, <seg cert="low">son</seg> of Tryphon

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

'on white marble square with mouldings near 2 feet wide and 3 1/2 high, on the ground' (Sherard). (probably a statue base)

Description of Text

No description

Letters

No description

Date

Late second or early third century A.D. (nomenclature, paternal nomen)

Edition Τρύφωνος τοῦ Τρύφωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος γ τοῦ Χρυσίππου τοῦ Αἰνείου ἄνδρα εὐγενείᾳ καὶ ἤθει σεμνῷ διενενκόντα ζή̣σαντα κοσμίως καὶ αἰδημόνως πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς καὶ ἐπαινεθέντα ἐφ'αἷς μεγαλοψύχως ἐξετέλεσε ἀρχαῖς καὶ λειτουργίαις ἔστησε Αὐρήλιος Τρύφων ὁ πατήρ
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)

Locations

Unknown Walls, South-east: apparently in the stretch near 12.528 (=CIG 2770), 12.531 (=2821) Findspot

Text Constituted From

publications; Sherard papers

History of Recording

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 .