DOI: 10.53084/22209050_2024_29_168

E.V. Prikhodko
The first stage of Lycian research: the discovery of inscriptions in the Lycian language. Part 2. The travel of Spratt, Forbes and Daniell and two travels of Schönborn

Abstract: This article is the second part of the comprehensive study on the first decades of the Lycian research. The author’s objective is to restore the chronology and routes of the first expeditions undertaken to explore and to identify the ruins of the Lycian cities. The article aims to provide by whom, when, and under what circumstances the first Lycian inscriptions were copied and published. The survival of the Lycian language owes itself to epigraphic monuments and legends on ancient coins from the 5th to 4th centuries BC. The very concept of «Lycian language» emerged once the first Lycian inscriptions were copied and published. This concept was introduced into scientific use by the French orientalist A.-J. Saint-Martin in 1821. The first part of the article covered the events from the publication by J. von Hammer of the first two copies to the second travel of Fellows. The second part is devoted to the travel of T. Spratt, E. Forbes and E.T. Daniell and to the two travels of J.A. Schönborn. In 1842, Spratt, Forbes and Daniell traveled the entire southern coast of Lycia and copied 34 Lycian inscriptions, 28 of which were found and copied for the first time. Schönborn traveled through Lycia and other countries of southern Asia Minor from the autumn 1841 to July 1842 and in the autumn of 1851. Schönborn’s journal have not been published, and the details of his wanderings can only be partially restored. But it was Schönborn who collected the largest collection of Lycian inscriptions – 78, of which 15 were copied for the first time, and 29 – almost simultaneously with Daniell.

Keywords: Lycia, Lycian language, Lycian inscription, scientific travels, Spratt, Forbes, Daniell, Loew, Schönborn, Schmidt

To cite this article: Prikhodko E.V. The first stage of Lycian research: the discovery of inscriptions in the Lycian language. Part 2. The travel of Spratt, Forbes and Daniell and two travels of Schönborn. Aristeas. XXIX (2024): 168–212.

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Elena V. Prikhodko