The inscriptions recording the fine for grave violations in Lycia and the particular institutions that received this fine

It's known that epitaphs comprise the largest quantity of surviving epigraphical material. In general an epitaph contains the following these informations: the name of the founder of the grave, for whom the grave was built, the persons who have the right to be buried, the fathers' names of these persons, sometimes their birth place, and their career or offi-cal/unofficial duties, the length of their life at times, the cause of death etc. From light cast by the information in these epitaphs, important understandings can be reached concerning the social, cultural, economic, religious and geographical fabricof antiquity. Moreover, these epitaphs also are the basic texts for studies concerning onomastic and human relations. Apart from these, generally these inscriptions have an expression that castsa malediction or gives some penalties which have to be paid to some institutions, if the grave is violated. The institutions are varied. However, in general the fine has to be paid to an offical institutions such as: demos, fiscus, polis, hierotaton tameion, temple and gerousia. How these institutions were chosen and who decided the size and receipent of the fine and of any curse is not obvious. In this study all the known inscriptions which carry a statement awarding a fine for the violation in Lycia are analyzed and fine collection agencies are described from the epigraphical evidence provided by the resources charts recording the distribution of these collection agencies by regions. The reason why Lycia was chosen as the study area is the the majority of the materials and Lycien old tradition. In this study all the known inscriptions which containing a statement of a fine have been gathered together. These 551 inscriptions have been entered into a database recording the collection agency, location of the epitaph and the amount of the fine. In consequence, these inscriptions have been separated into the groups on the basis of the fine recipient institution and region of the epitaph. Key words: Lycia, fine for grave, epitaphs, demos, polis, fiscus, hierotaton tameion, temple, gerousia, fine recipient institution.