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.)