Patara was one of the chief cities of Lycia, an ancient region on the south-west coast of what is now Turkey, and it was the administrative base of the Roman Province of Lycia. Since 2010, the DAI’s Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy has been working with a university research centre on Asia Minor, analysing and publishing the many inscriptions from Patara.
One specimen is from a certain Licinius, who was chief priest of Patara at the end of the 1st century AD. He details his various obligations in an inscription on a block that was reused as building material in the late classical city wall. It was rediscovered in 2012 and has been translated and processed as part of the project.
Along with many others, the Licinius inscription block was reused as building material in the late classical city wall (its position is marked here as “Nr. 4”) (Photo: C. Schuler, DAI Munich) 
Detail of the Licinius inscription (Photo: C. Schuler, DAI Munich) 
The research results have been on show in the exhibition “Patara – Lycia’s gateway to the Roman world” at several locations in Germany since 2016.