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Xanthos ruins
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The 'Xanthian Obelisk' - fifth century BC, a tall pillar tomb covered with Greek and the longest Lycian inscription known to exist (250 lines) on all four sides. This writing was instrumental in helping to begin to understand the riddle of the difficult Lycian language, though the writing on it is not completely understood. This tomb sits at the northeast corner of what was the Roman Agora, built in the 2nd or 3rd century AD to replace the older agora.