Mord im Klerus von Ikonion

Abstract

U. J. Seetzen (1767–1811), physician and Orientalist, recorded his journeys in his extensive journals. Therein one can also find transcriptions of Greek inscriptions, which were discovered by Seetzen in Anatolia and the Near East. Within these copies, which he drew during his visit to Konya in the fall of 1803, there is a hitherto unknown funerary stone from the late antique-early Byzantine period for the priest and presumably choir leader Theophilos, who was murdered by his foster child. The article combines an overview of Seetzen’s epigraphical journeys and an attempt to provide a historical interpretation of this inscription.