The Limyra bilingual inscription is a 4th-century BCE bilingual Greek-Aramaic funerary inscription discovered in 1840. It remains in situ, in Tomb No. 46 in the Limyra Necropolis CH V, 3km outside Limyra, in southwest Turkey.Mariona Vernet Pons, Lycian Zemure "Limyra" and the Aramaic inscription from Limyra, a new reading, Aula orientalis: revista de estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, ISSN 0212-5730, Vol. 35, Nº. 2, 2017, pgs. 327-344; "The Aramaic funerary inscription from Limyra is located in Tomb No. 46 of Limyra’s Necropolis CH V (Borchardt 2012: 420), in the midst of other Lycian tombs, which contain Lycian inscriptions. This tomb is the only one bearing two inscriptions, written in Aramaic and Greek respectively. It is dated from ca. the 5th-4th centuries BCE. It consists of a wide double cut-rock tomb with the characteristic protruding timber beams of the Lycian funerary architectonic style and without pediment. It is situated very close to the modern roadway, about three kilometers beyond Limyra. The Aramaic inscription is engraved in a single line on the lintel of the tomb’s left entrance. Above the Aramaic inscription, on the frieze, there is another inscription written in Greek that spans both doors and occupies a single line." The double cut rock-cut tomb is Lycian in architectural style, and is the only tomb in the area with a bilingual inscription. The Aramaic inscription is on the lintel of the left opening, with the Greek inscription on the frieze above and across both doors.
The Aramaic inscription is known as KAI 262. An analysis of the inscription was first published in 1887 by Eduard Sachau.Eduard Sachau, Eine Altaramäische Inschrift aus Lycien, Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, CXIV, p.3-7
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