Of Winged Women and Stone Tombs: Identity and Agency through Iron Age Lycian Mortuary Architecture

The people collectively named the Lycians in modern scholarship are best represented of western Anatolian first millennium BC cultures terms philological, historical, and archaeological data. This article seeks to better understand meanings behind Iron Age Lycian mortuary monuments religious images, how they reflect identity agency a time political turmoil. By studying landscape, tombs we can begin comprehend perceptions afterlife, religion cultural identity. In particular, look images so-called “Harpies” “Running Men” evidence connections past creation their own what it means be Lycian. study trends, monumental architecture, gives us small but tantalizing view into understanding death, wielded culture as tool for survival politically fraught world.