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Votive Reliefs from Balboura and its Environs with an Epigraphical Appendix1
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Seventy-five votive reliefs have been identified from the survey of the Balboura city site and the west part of its territory. Several reliefs include inscriptions, yielding crucial information about their date and function in Greco-Roman northern Lycia; these are studied by N. P. Milner in the epigraphical appendix. This paper presents a catalogue of the reliefs, an analysis of the iconographic types and distribution outside the survey area, and an examination of their location and function. Prior to extensive survey of the Balboura area many of the reliefs were undiscovered and unpublished. This treatment of the votive reliefs aims to increase our knowledge of religious life and art at Balboura—first during its period of hellenisation (from c. 200 B.C.), and later as a small urban centre of the eastern Roman Empire. The majority of reliefs are rock-cut and remain in situ; the others are carved on slabs. The general condition of the reliefs is poor. Many are badly weathered, as well as being of a generally low artistic standard.
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* With acknowledgments to the Turkish authorities for permission to survey the site, to the British Academy and the B.I.A.A. generally, and the Craven and Meyerstein Funds, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford, specifically, for contributing funds to my work on site, and to the government representatives Bay Mehmet Şener, Elazığ museum, and Bay Haluk Yalçınkaya, Milas museum, for their help in 1986 and '87. I also thank Dr. J. J. Coulton who directed the Balboura Survey, for inviting me to take part, and for constructive criticism of a draft of this article. He also supplied the data for inscriptions not at the site of Balboura. Thanks for comments are also due to Prof. O.R. Gurney and Dr. B. Levick.
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