Trophon
or GROPHON, is supposed to have been the maker of the statue of Ecphauto, the daughter of Zeus, the inscription belonging to which we still possess, namely, the well-known Melian inscription.
The last word of the inscription is
ΤΡΟΠΗΟΝ, where it is not quite clear whether the first letter is
Τ or
Γ, but most scholars take it for the later.
The whole inscription runs thus, when the orthography is modernized :
Παῖ Διὸς Ἐκφαντώ, δέξαι τόδ̓ ὰμεμφὲς ἄγαλμα,
σοὶ γὰρ ἐπευχόμενος τοῦτ̓ ἐτέλεσσε Γρόφων.
(Welcker.
Rhein. Mus. 1848, vol.vi.p. 383.)
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