Drei Girlanden-Altäre aus Xanthos (?) und Patara

Year 2025, Volume: 29, 127 - 135, 11.05.2025

Selen Kılıç Aslan

https://doi.org/10.37095/gephyra.1614977

Abstract

This paper re-publishes three inscribed garlanded altars from Lycia preserved in the Museum of Antalya and provides corrected information on their findspots as well as some improved readings, which enables new considerations about the identities of the persons documented in them. The first inscribed altar comes most probably from Xanthos in Lycia, but not from Pogla in Pisidia, and records, among others, a man named Niketes, son of Hegemon, who is probably identical with Niketes, son of Hegemon, known from another Xanthian inscription as a sacred herald (hierokeryx) of the Lycian League. The maternal grandfather of Niketes was called Hegemon, not Ktemon, making it likely that his mother had married a close relative. The second inscribed altar, published without provenance, comes from Patara and documents a woman named Parapsyche – she is the only person bearing this name in the entire database of LGPN. This attestation can now be attributed to Patara. Parapsyche set up the altar for her mistress (kyria) Arsasis (but not for Arsasis, daughter of Kyrtas), who may be identical with Arsasis, daughter of Arteimas, recorded on the third inscribed altar, whose provenance is unknown but whose inscription strongly points to Patara.

Keywords

funerary altar, Lycia, sacred herald of the Lycian League, Parapsyche

Three Garlanded Altars from Xanthos (?) and Patara

Abstract

This paper re-publishes three inscribed garlanded altars from Lycia preserved in the Museum of Antalya and provides corrected information on their findspots as well as some improved readings, which enables new considerations about the identities of the persons documented in them. The first inscribed altar comes most probably from Xanthos in Lycia, but not from Pogla in Pisidia, and records, among others, a man named Niketes, son of Hegemon, who is probably identical with Niketes, son of Hegemon, known from another Xanthian inscription as a sacred herald (hierokeryx) of the Lycian League. The maternal grandfather of Niketes was called Hegemon, not Ktemon, making it likely that his mother had married a close relative. The second inscribed altar, published without provenance, comes from Patara and documents a woman named Parapsyche – she is the only person bearing this name in the entire database of LGPN. This attestation can now be attributed to Patara. Parapsyche set up the altar for her mistress (kyria) Arsasis (but not for Arsasis, daughter of Kyrtas), who may be identical with Arsasis, daughter of Arteimas, recorded on the third inscribed altar, whose provenance is unknown but whose inscription strongly points to Patara.

Keywords

Garlanded funerary altar, Lycia, sacred herald of the Lycian League, Parapsyche

Ksanthos (?) ve Patara'dan Üç Adet Çelenkli Mezar Sunağı

Abstract

Bu makalede Antalya Müzesi’nde bulunan üç girlandlı ve yazıtlı sunak tekrar yayımlanmakta ve bunların hem buluntu yerleri hakkında düzeltilmiş bilgiler, hem de yazıtları ile ilgili bazı yeni okumalar sunularak, bu sunaklarda belgelenen kişilerin kimlikleri hakkında yeni değerlendirmeler yapılmaktadır. Bir numaralı sunak Pogla/Pisidia’dan değil, çok büyük olasılıkla Ksanthos/Lykia’dan gelmektedir. Yazıtında bahsi geçen şahıslardan Hegemon oğlu Niketes, muhtemelen bir diğer Ksanthos yazıtından bilinen, Lykia Birliği kutsal habercisi (hierokeryks) Hegemon oğlu Niketes ile aynı kişidir. Niketes’in anne tarafından dedesinin ismi Ktemon değil Hegemon’dur, ki bu da annesinin olasılıkla bir yakın akrabası ile evlenmiş olduğuna işaret etmektedir. Daha evvel kökeni belirtilmeden yayımlanmış olan iki numaralı sunak Patara’dan gelmektedir ve yazıtında Parapsykhe isimli bir kadının bahsi geçmektedir. Bu kişi tüm LGPN veri tabanında bu ismi taşıyan tek şahıstır. Bu ismin belgelenme yeri artık Patara olarak netleştirilebilir. Parapsykhe sunağı (Kyrtas kızı Arsasis için değil) sahibesi (kyria) Arsasis için yaptırmıştır, ki bu Arsasis, kökeni belli olmamasına rağmen, yazıtının içeriği itibariyle çok büyük olasılıkla Patara’dan gelen üç numaralı sunakta bahsi geçen Arteimas kızı Arsasis ile aynı kişi olabilir.

Keywords

Girlandlı mezar sunağı, Lykia, Lykia Birliği kutsal habercisi, Parapsykhe.

References

• Adak, M. – Thonemann, P. 2022. Teos and Abdera. Two Cities in Peace and War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Baker, P. – Thériault, G. 2005. “Les Lyciens, Xanthos et Rome dans la première moitié du Ier s. a.C. : nouvelles inscriptions.” REG 118/2: 329-366.
• Behrwald, R. 2000. Der Lykische Bund. Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Verfassung. Bonn: Habelt.
• Gökalp Özdil, N. 2020. “Antalya Müzesi’nden Yayımlanmamış Bazı Mezar Yazıtları” (Some Unpublished Funerary Inscriptions from the Museum of Antalya). Phaselis 6: 29-34.
• Işık, F. 2016. “Einführung.” In: H. İşkan – Ch. Schuler – Ş. Aktaş et al. (edd.), Patara. Lykiens Tor zur römischen Welt. Darmstadt: Verlag Phillip von Zabern, 8-28.
• Kılıç Aslan, S. 2023. Lycian Families in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. A Regional Study of Inscriptions: towards a Social and Legal Framework. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 19. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
• Korkut, T. – Tekoğlu, R. 2003. “Grabinschriften aus Pamphylien und Lykien.” ZPE 143: 105-116.
• Korkut, T. 2007. “Grabaltäre mit Girlanden in Pamphylien und Lykien.” In: G. Koch (ed.), Akten des Symposiums des Sarkophag-Corpus 2001, Marburg, 2.-7. Juli 2001. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 327-333.
• Magie, D. 1950. Roman Rule in Asia Minor. To the End of the Third Century after Christ, I-II. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Reitzenstein, D. 2011. Die lykischen Bundespriester. Repräsentation der kaiserzeitlichen Elite Lykiens. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
• Sayar, M. – Siewert, P. – Taeuber, H. 1989. Inschriften aus Hierapolis-Kastabala. Bericht über eine Reise nach Ost-Kilikien. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
• Schuler, Ch. 2023. “Neue Inschriften aus dem Territorium von Myra: Die Gemeinde der Sybeneis, ein Peripolion.” AClassMed 6: 57-73.
• Schuler, Ch. – Zimmermann, Z. 2012. “Neue Inschriften aus Patara I: Zur Elite der Stadt in Hellenismus und früher Kaiserzeit.” Chiron 42: 567-626.
• Thonemann, P. 2017. “Close-Kin Marriage in Roman Anatolia.” CCJ 63: 143-166.
• Wörrle, M. 1991. “Epigraphische Forschungen zur Geschichte Lykiens IV. Drei griechische Inschriften aus Limyra.” Chiron 21: 203-239.
• Işık, F. 1993. “Patara 1991.” KST 14/2: 385-408.