Pixre apparently is the name of a Lycian poet buried here, who in the inscription tells of the "Nymphs of Phellos", who were his Muses. Its nine lines make up thirteen strophes. The third text is the so-called Pixre poem on a grave monument from Antiphellos (a harbour city 30 kilometers east of Xanthos). Dieter Schürr suspects that the central theme of the poem may be the legitimization of Muni's regency, possibly after a murder case. A certain Muni is mentioned, possibly the widow of Kheriga who ordered the poem to be written on the west side of the monument. Again, this poem is about the relation of Kheriga and Trqqiz, but Natri is absent and instead the " Nymphs of Phellos" make their appearance. This seems to be due to miscalculation of the engraver, who also made the mistake to engrave one strophe twice. The text is not complete: it breaks off in the middle of the 23rd strophe. Below the last strophe there is an empty space, which shows that the poem is complete and that the text on the west side of the stele (formerly thought to be a continuation of the north side text) is a separate poem. Its leitmotiv seems to be how the Lycian king Kheriga received his orders for military activities as well as divine help from the gods, especially from Natri (the Lycian equivalent of Apollo) and the Weather god Trqqiz ( Tarḫunz).
Regardless of the name used, the consensus view is that Milyan/Lycian B is a separate language, rather than a variety of Lycian A. Diether Schürr characterizes the Lycian B as "poetical Lycian, with some conservative traits, a few idiosyncratic developments, and some elements that it shares with Carian". The alternate name, "Lycian B", stresses the close likeness to Lycian A. "Milyan" may be regarded as a misnomer, because Milyas proper was an isolated, inland part of Lycia, whereas all known "Milyan" language inscriptions are from the near-coastal cities of Xanthos and Antiphellos.
The Milyae were believed to have preceded the Lycians, Pisidians and Phrygians as the main inhabitants of Milyas. The name Milyan was given to it by modern scholars, who believed that it was the language of the Milyae (Μιλύαι), or Milyans, also known by the exonyms Sólymoi (Σόλυμοι), Solymi and Solymians. The contemporaneous endonym of the language is unknown. It is attested from three inscriptions: two poems of 34 and 71 engraved lines, respectively, on the so-called Xanthian stele (or Xanthian Obelisk, found at Xanthos (which was known to the Lycians as Arñna), and another, shorter, inscription (nine lines) on a sarcophagus at Antiphellus ( Habessus). Milyan, also known as Lycian B and previously Lycian 2, is an extinct ancient Anatolian language.
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