Alphe(nos) Modestos, Strategos in Cyzicus/Mysia during the reign of Septimius Severus. His name appears in most cases as ΑΛΦ…,
seldom as ΑΛΦΗ… ΜΟΔΕCΤΟC: SNG Righetti no. 700). Lit.: W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009)
p. 312 s. v. Alphe- and p. 693 s. v. Modestos (AD 193-211); Th. Corsten (ed.), Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V A. Coastal
Asia Minor (2010) p. 320 s. v. Modestos (no. 16) (AD 193-211).