Kaunos Kbid 1966-2021

245 pp, color figures, hb, in English.

Front Cover: BILINGUE While the numerous inscriptions unearthed at archaeological sites throughout the Eastem Mediterranean help to understand many aspects of the ancient world and its peoples, bilingual ones (Bilingue) are very special and valuable to linguists in deciphering ancient languages and understanding their structures.

The Kaunos Bilingue, written in Carian and Ancient Greek in the 4th century BCE, made a great contribution to the understanding of the Carian language. Although the Carian alphabet superficially resembles the Ancient Greek alphabet, it differs in that some similarlooking letters take on different sounds in the language and there are a few letters specifıc to Carian. Moreover, the most striking part of this Bilingue, long before the use of Greek name Kaunos, is the use ofthe original name of the city, KBID, given to their city by the Carians, the indigenous people of Anatolia.