From other sources I gather the attribution to Ptolemaios II and his sister is probable but not certain. In a Limyra sculptures part of the museum of archaeology in Antalya
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Part from monumental tomb (Heroon) of Pericles King of Lycia-Limyra, 4th century BC. Under this king Limyra lived through its most brilliant period, the tomb “belonging to a hero” is located on the Limyra acropolis, erected 350-370 BC, it is in a regional style mixed with Greek effects, including a line of caryatides. I intend to visit it sometime, having failed to do so in 2012. In the museum one sees heavily eroded parts, and a reconstruction of what they once looked like. In a Limyra sculptures part of the museum of archaeology in Antalya
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Sculptural work from the cenotaph ( a monument for someone who died but is not buried at the spot of the cenotaph) of Gaius Caesar, grandson and adopted child of Emperor Augustus. He died in Limyra in 4 AD after having been wounded during a battle in Armenia. He was buried in Rome in the mausoleum of Augustus, the Limyrans erected a cenotaph.
In a Limyra sculptures part of the museum of archaeology in Antalya
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The Ptolemaion, a monument built in memory of Ptolemy I in the 3rd century BC. The metopes are in the Antalya Museum
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The cenotaph (or what’s left of it, the decoration is now in the Antalya museum) of Gaius Caesar, adopted son of Augustus, who died here in 4 AD from a wound received in Armenia. It was made in Opus Caementum (concrete) technique and covered with marble blocks, parts of which are in the Antalya Museum (see my gallery). The form the monument had is unclear. The Lycian League paid the expenses. The Wikipedia has "The cenotaph of Gaius Caesar. From the Wikipedia: “Gaius Julius Caesar (20 BC – 21 February AD 4), most commonly known as Gaius Caesar or Caius Caesar, was the oldest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. He was born between 14 August and 13 September 20 BC or according to other sources in 23 September 20 BC with the name Gaius Vipsanius Agrippa, but when he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Roman Emperor Augustus, his name was changed to Gaius Julius Caesar.
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In the rocks across a gulley behind and uphill from the theatre are some graves high up in the face of the rock.
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It was built against the side of a hill and held 30 rows of seats divided by a diazoma. A maecenas from Rhodiapolis, Opramoas, donated 20.000 denarii to have it built. Through corridors like these one could reach the seats.
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It was built against the side of a hill and held 30 rows of seats divided by a diazoma. A maecenas from Rhodiapolis, Opramoas, donated 20.000 denarii to have it built.
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This grave had a nice decoration of some fight. It is the tomb of Tebursseli (in the 2nd Necropolis, nr. 140). The noble fief lord Tebursseli and King Pericles combat seven enemies. The King is depicted as greater and he battles with five soldiers. Source: On the Lycian Way, a book sold in museums in the area.
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This grave had a nice decoration of some fight. It is the tomb of Tebursseli (in the 2nd Necropolis, nr. 140). The noble fief lord Tebursseli and King Pericles combat seven enemies. The King is depicted as greater and he battles with five soldiers. Source: On the Lycian Way, a book sold in museums in the area.
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Not too far from the main road a lone sarcophagus stood on a kind of pedestal: the Sarcophagus of Xñtabura, a hipoje-sarcophagus of the Lycian house type. It has eagle-gryphons on the pediments, and various winged creatures on the lid. A funeral feast and a judging of the deceased (by Zeus and probably Rhadamanthys, Minos of Aiakos) are also represented. I did not get close enough to see them. Source: On the Lycian way, a book sold in several museums in the area.
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Rarely excavation areas are as rural as this, with rows of bee-hives all over the place. If you keep calm they do the same.
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It does not quite feel like a bridge, more like an elevated road, but then again, the terrain must have been very different here in Roman times. The Wikipedia has about this bridge: "The Limyra Bridge (in Turkish: Kırk Göz Kemeri, "Bridge of the Forty Arches") is a late Roman bridge in Lycia, in modern south-west Turkey, and one of the oldest segmented arch bridges in the world. The 360 m (1,181.1 ft) long bridge is located near the ancient city of Limyra, and spans the Alakır Çayı river over 26 segmental arches. These arches, with a span-to-rise ratio of 5.3:1, give the bridge an unusually flat profile, and were unsurpassed as an architectural achievement until the late Middle Ages. Despite its unique features, the bridge remains relatively unknown, and only in the 1970s did researchers from the Istanbul branch of the German Archaeological Institute carry out field examinations on the site."
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It was built against the side of a hill and held 30 rows of seats divided by a diazoma. A maecenas from Rhodiapolis, Opramoas, donated 20.000 denarii to have it built. The stage building has all but disappeared. It seems to have been partly dug from the hill in its back, but to the retai8ning walls are visible.
One of some pictures taken during two visits. Some where taken while climbing the hills in its back, so providing a bird's eye view.
