page_title: Warrior relief of Efrenk
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Warrior relief of Efrenk / Description
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Relief eines Kriegers bei Efrenk, nahe Kızkalesi, Landkreis Erdemli, Südtürkei, Inschrift
context_page_description: The Warrior relief of Efrenk is a rock relief from the Greco-Roman period, probably the 2nd century AD, located by the Lamos river in Cilicia, southern Turkey.
context_section_description: The relief is carved into a vertical cliff-face about 5 m above street level. It is 1.9 m high and depicts a warrior, surrounded by a naiskos. The legs are badly damaged; the right leg supports his weight, while the left leg hangs free. His raised right arm holds up a spear. On his left side he wears a sword, with his left hand on the grip. He is dressed in a short, belted chiton, with clearly carved drapery. There are traces of white paint on the relief in several spaces - between the head and the right arm, for instance, there are traces of red paint. Paint very rarely survives on Cilician cliff reliefs.
  On the left pilaster there is an inscription at about chest height, which has been resolved as an 8 line inscription:
  Ancient Greek: 
  ῾Ός δ’ ἂν βά-
  λη ἤ ἀ[φ]αι-
  
  ρήση τὸ [ἡ-]
  
  ρῶιον, βά-
  
  λοι αύτ[ον]
  
  ὁ ῾Ήλιος
  
  καὶ ἡ Σελή-
  
  ν[η].
  English: May Helios and Selene attack anyone who attacks or diminishes the Heroon.
  Josef Keil and Adolf Wilhelm report the illegible traces of an "actual funerary inscription in the background on the left and right sides of the figure's head." The letter forms date the inscription to the middle of the Imperial period, while similarities in posture and clothing led Serra Durugönül to date the relief to the second century AD when she studied the Cilician cliff reliefs in the 1980s.
caption: inscription
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