Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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the cities of this district. The crown of the high mountain
peaks on the south had been also surrounded by walls of the
same kind, and in some instances the gothic-formed sarco-
phagi were carved out of the protruding peaks of the rock;
the heavy top alone added to form the sepulchre.

In my former rambles in Asia Minor I observed that each
district had a peculiarity in the architecture of its tombs,
and that none was more distinctly marked than that of
the ancient Lycia. The four kinds of tombs represented in
the annexed Plate, I have found, are peculiar to Lycia, and
may serve in part as tests of the extent of that country. I
shall call these the Obelisk, the Grothic, and the Elizabethan
forms; the first from its appearance, and the latter as strongly
resembling the architectural styles so named. With these
forms I have generally found the Lycian language connected,
and two or more of them appear in every ancient city found
in that districts Applying this architectural test, I at once
determined this to be a city within the confines of Lycia,
and as such could be none else but the ancient Calynda,
which, according to Herodotus t, was beyond the boundaries

The tombs selected for this plate are from Antiphellus, Tlos, and
Xanthus. f Clio, 172.

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