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Warrior relief of Efrenk
The Warrior relief of Efrenk is a rock relief from the Greco-Roman period, probably the 2nd century AD, located by the Lamos river (modern day Limonlu) in Cilicia, southern Turkey.
Location.
The relief is about two kilometres north of Sömek in the Silifke district of Mersin Province, about 30 km northeast of the city of Silifke and 20 km north of Kızkalesi, the ancient Korykos. It is carved into a northwest-facing cliff-face beside a steep path leading
from Western Cilicia". The ancient historians Keil and Wilhelm travelled Cilicia in 1891 and 1925, publishing an account in 1931, "Denkmäler aus dem Rauhen Kilikien" (Monuments of Rough Cilicia), in which the relief of Efrenk is described with a fuller reading of the inscription. In 1989 Serra Durugönül completed a dissertation, "Die Felsreliefs im Rauhen Kilikien" (The Cliff-reliefs of Rough Cilicia), which also discusses the warrior relief.
Bibliography.
- Edward L. Hicks. "Inscriptions from Western