Inscription TL 73
The single-line Lycian inscription is on a rock-cut tomb buried almost up to the upper crossbeam in Korba. There is also a 7-line Greek inscription.
Transliteration (Melchert, 2001):
ebẽñnẽ: prñnawã: m=ẽne: prñnawatẽ: xudrehila: hrppi ladi: ehbi:
Translation:
This building/tomb has built by Xudrehila for his wife.
Insription N 332
It is inscribed on the narrow side of a rock-carved sarcophagus with an ogival-shaped lid.
Transliteration (Christiansen, 2019):
1 [e]bẽñnẽ: tṭ.zi: m=ene ñte tuwet[e]
2 ẹwe..xaj̣ hrppi=je=me=i ttadi tike: mej=
3 eti: tubidi: ebuθis: se mahãi: lãtãi se heledi
Translation (Christiansen, 2019):
This sarcophagus has set up Ewe… (If someone) places someone in addition/on top then the father(?) Ebuθis will strike him – and the gods of the dead(?) and (of) heledi.
References:
Büyükyörük, F. 2014. “Korba Antik Yerleşimi Kurtarma Kazısı,” ANMED, 272-276.
Christiansen, B. 2019. “Editions of Lycian Inscriptions not Included in Melchert’s Corpus from 2001,” in Luwic dialects and Anatolian. Inheritance and diffusion., eds. I. X. Adiego et al., 65–134.
Melchert, H. C. 2001. LycianCorpus.pdf at www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Melchert
Neumann, G. 2000. “Neue lykische Texte vom Avşar Tepesi und aus Korba,” in Lykische Studien 5 (Asia Minor Studien 41), ed. F. Kolb, Bonn, 183–185.
Images:
G. Neumann, 2000
Ertuğrul Anıl, 2025
Tayfun Bilgin, 2025