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14-Dec-2013 Dick Osseman

Olympos second of the Port Monumental Tombs December 2013 4023.jpg

Near the coast there is a tomb with two sarcophagi.

On this picture: looking down on the sarcophagi.

You can find the area on some pictures using View Map.

A helpful source was On the Lycian Way, a book sold at museums in the area.

I have been informed these tombs "date from roughly 250 AD, one can tell that from the first name of Zosimas (Aurelius), which in fact is a legal statement. In 212 imperator Caracalla ordered an edict to let all free inhabitants of the whole empire be Roman citizens (Constitutio antoniniana, for short CA). He did that by giving them his gentil name Aurelius. So the inscriptions with AYP (AUR) are dating after 212. By the end oft 4th century that went out of use because by then anybody was AYP and there was no more something special about it."

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