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==Sources== [[File:Lycian inscriptions.png|thumb|Map showing places where Lycian inscriptions have been found.]]Lycian is known from these sources, some of them fairly extensive:<ref>Adiego (2007) page 764.</ref><ref>Bryce (1986) page 42.</ref><ref>Christiansen, Birgit (2019), ''Editions of Lycian Inscriptions not Included in Melchert’s Corpus from 2001'', in: {{cite book |last1=Adiego (et al., eds.) |first1=Ignasi-Xavier |title=Luwic dialects and Anatolian. Inheritance and diffusion |date=2019 |publisher=Universitat de Barcelona |location=Barcelona |isbn=978-84-9168-414-5 |pages=65–134 |url=http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/149564/5/9788491684145%20%28Creative%20Commons%29.pdf |access-date=2021-10-26}}</ref> * 172 inscriptions on stone in the [[Lycian script]] dating from the 5th and 4th century BC (until ca. 330 BC).<ref>Bryce (1986) pp. 50, 54.</ref> They include: ** The [[Xanthus stele]]. The inscribed upper part of a tomb at Xanthos, called the Xanthus Stele or the Xanthus Obelisk. A Lycian A inscription covers the south, east and part of the north faces. The north side also contains a 12 line poem in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] and additional text, found mainly on the west side, in Milyan. Milyan appears only there and on a tomb in [[Antiphellos]]. The total number of lines on the stele is 255, including 138 in Lycian A, 12 in Greek, and 105 in Milyan. ** The [[Letoon trilingual]], in Lycian A, Greek and Aramaic. ** 150 burial instructions carved on rock tombs. ** 20 votive or dedicatory inscriptions. * About 100 inscriptions on coins minted at [[Xanthos|Xanthus]] from the reign of Kuprili, 485-440 BC, to the reign of Pericle, 380-360 BC.<ref>Bryce (1986) pages 51–52.</ref> * Personal and place names in Greek.
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