Unpublished Inscriptions in the Garden of the Fethiye Museum
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article presents 24 Greek inscriptions displayed in the garden of the Fethiye Museum, which are published here for the first time. Where their provenance is recorded, they come from Telmessos itself or from the wider area served by the museum, chiefly the district of Seydikemer. Most of them are funerary monuments (altars, stelae, columns and inscribed blocks); the remainder comprises dedications, a funerary epigram and a list of agonisamenoi from the theatre of Telmessos. Among the more notable texts are a dedication made on the command of the Theoi Prōïmoi (“Early Gods”), conveyed through hierophonoi; a dedication to Agdistis; a funerary altar with a provision for an annual sacrifice at the Karobolia; and a funerary inscription cut with permission granted in a letter. A reused altar, of which only the later text had been published, is re-edited with both of its texts, and the reading and interpretation of the earlier edition are corrected. The material also adds several local names to the onomastic record of Lycia.
Source: Gephyra
Authors: Fatih Onur, Fatma Avcu
Institution: Akdeniz University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225649133