Letoon Trilingual

The Letoon trilingual, also called the Xanthos trilingual, is an inscription in three languages, Lycian, Greek and Aramaic, covering the faces of a four-sided stone stele discovered in 1973 during excavation of the Letoon temple complex near Xanthos in ancient Lycia, present-day Turkey. Created while Lycia was under Persian Achaemenid rule, the inscription is a public record of a decree authorizing the establishment of a religious cult, naming the deities involved and making provisions for its officers. The Lycian text runs 41 lines, the Greek 35 and the Aramaic 27; the three versions are not word-for-word translations of one another, each containing some information the others omit, with the Aramaic version somewhat condensed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/