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Aristodemos Tombs and Temple Tomb with Coffered Ceiling

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    October 9, 2024

    Most sarcophagi are of the well-known Lycian type with a rectangular coffin, but in Sidyma they have a hipped roof, rather than the saddle-shaped ("gothic vaulted") one as in many other Lycian cemeteries.

    This unusual twin tomb belonged, as its inscription tells us, to a father and Son, both named Aristodemos. One was a court physician and honoured by the Roman Emperor.

    The tomb right next to it is a temple-like tomb. It stands on a high podium and originally must have had two columns "in antis" (the portruding roof in front was supported by two columns). It has an elaborately decorated coffered ceiling, consisting of a huge slab decorated with heads and flowers inside square sunken panels of coffers (also called lacundaria or cassettes). One rosette still shows traces of colouring.

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      More stone tombs made of heavy blocks

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