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Gravestone of Tryphe,
ca. 150–100 BCE
INSCRIPTION:
ΤΡΥΦΕΙ ΗΓΙΟΥ
ΑΛΥΠΕ ΧΑΙΡΕ
To Tryphe [daughter or wife] of Egias
Farewell, you who are now without pain
This grave relief marks the loss of a woman, Tryphe, who is presented here seated within a rounded niche in a pose that is reminiscent of the famous statue of the goddess Tyche of Antioch, which had been erected shortly after the founding of the city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes in 300 BCE. While her pose remains the same as the colossal prototype, other elements have been transformed, such as positioning Tryphe on a plain stool, as if reminding viewers of her humanity even as her posture elevates her to the level of the goddess of fortune.
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ca. 150–100 BCE
Turkey, Seleuceia Pieria
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
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- Tobias Dohrn, Die Tyche von Antiochia, (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1960). , p. 45; pl. 46.1
- Klaus Parlasca, Syrische Grabreliefs hellenistischer und römischer Zeit: Fundgruppen und Probleme, (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1982)., p. 7; pl. 4.2
- Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Hellenistic sculpture, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990-2002)., Vol. 2: p. 225; note 34; pl. 66.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1992," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 52, no. 1 (1993): p. 36-83., p. 48
- Susan B. Matheson, et al., An obsession with fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman art, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1994).
- B. S. Ridgway, et al., Greek sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University: Greek originals, Roman copies and variants, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1994)., no. 6, pp. 24-27, illus.
- J. Bodel and S. Tracy, Greek and Latin inscriptions in the USA: a checklist, (New York: American Academy in Rome, 1997)., p. 147
- Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: the lost ancient city, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).
