Lycian Inscription of Kızılca

Inscription N 314

It is carved on a roughly smoothed natural cliff face of the rock near Kızılca village in Elmalı. The inscription is divided into two parts (N 314a and N 314b). There are two rock-cut tombs a little further up the inscription.

Transliteration (Melchert, 2001):
N314a:
1 xupã
2 ebẽñni
3 m=en=adẽ
4 masauwẽti
5 mejereh
6 [t]ideimi
7 [ẽ]ti: xñtawata
8 [p]eriklehe

N314b:
1 xupa ebehi
2 ti(j)=j=adi: tike
3 zum̃mẽ: tihe
4 m=ene tubidi
5 eti ebehẽ
6 xaxakba

Translation (Neumann, 1979):
N314a: This grave, now it was built by Masauweti, son of Mejereh, during the reign of Perikle.
N314b: Whoever causes any damage to the grave here will strike him … …


References:
Çevik, N. 1996. ‘Yeni Bulgular Işığında Elmalı Yaylası’, Adalya I, 61-72
Neumann, G. 1979. Neufunde lykischer Inschriften seit 1901, (Denkschr. ÖAW, phil.-hist. Kl. 135), Wien.

Image Sources:
G. Neumann, 1979
N. Çevik, 1996