Batı Lykia'da Ksanthos Hanedanlığı'nın karşıtları ve ardılları: Weχssere'ye ilişkin soruları yeniden ele alış

Abstract

In response to several recent studies published by Koray Konuk, Diether Schürr and Frank Kolb the author assembles the extant numismatic evidence of the early 4th century BC from Central and Western Lycia in order to reconstruct the history of the Xanthos-Valley between the end of the rule of Erbbina and the rise of Perikle and to establish the sequence of the principal political agents during that period. He is defending the traditional hypothesis that there were not less (but also not more) than two rulers with the name Weχssere. The first one had been a contemporary of Χeriga, who probably had taken the city of Xanthos from him. The second one, who might actually have been a son or a relative of his elder namesake, invaded the Xanthos-Valley from Central-Lycia bringing the reign of the tyrant Erbbina to an end at the beginning of the 4th century BC. While the likewise attested agents Aruwãtijesi and Ddẽñtimi were probably co-rulers or lieutenants, the author holds that Waχssebllimi, Waχssepddimi and Uχssepddimi are possibly to be seen as nothing else than composite name-forms used by the elder and the younger Weχssere respectively. Furthermore, the author comes to the conclusion that the numismatic material might point to a conflict between Mithrapata and Artumpara in Western Lycia before both were finally defea­ted by Perikle.