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APPENDIX.
oriental royalty, held over him. The body-guard and conquering
party of the chief are Greek soldiers. Many of these peculiari-
ties are also seen in the larger frieze, and also in the style of the
lions and statues. The form of the building, which alone I can
reconcile with the remains, is a Carian monument* of the Ionic
order. Bearing in mind all these points, I am strongly inclined
to attribute this work to the mercenaries from iEolia and Ionia,
brought down by Harpagus to conquer the inhabitants of Xan-
thus, whom they are said to have utterly destroyed. This monu-
ment may have been the tomb of a chief, or erected as a memorial
of the conquest of the city by Harpagus. "No inscription has
been found, or it might probably have thrown some light upon
the date of this work. In the immediate neighbourhood were
found the other friezes, representing hunting scenes, a battle,
offerings of various kinds and by different nations, funeral feasts,
and several statues which are of the same date.
The whole of the remaining works now to be traced amidst the
ruins of Xanthus are decidedly of a late date; scarcely any are
to be attributed to a period preceding the Christian era, and to
that age I cannot conceive the works just noticed to have belonged.
A triumphal arch or gateway of the city at the foot of the cliff of
which I have spoken has upon it a Greek inscription, showing it
to have been erected in the reign of Vespasianf, a.d. 80: from
this arch are the metopes and triglyphs now in the Museum.
Through this is a pavement of flagstones leading towards the
theatre. To this age I should attribute the theatre, agora, and
most of the buildings which I have called Greek, and which are
marked red upon the plan. To this people belong the immense
quantity of Mosaic pavements which have existed in all parts of
the city. Almost all the small pebbles in the fields are the debris
of these works : in many places we have found patterns remaining,
which are of coarse execution, but Greek in design.
Near one of the old walls of the Acropolis we laid open an esta-
* # Lycia, p. 76. I have many other drawings made at Alinda and
other cities of similar monuments.
f Above the two lines of inscription had been a line of similar Greek
characters, which had been purposely erased,—possibly of an earlier
benefactor.
APPENDIX.
oriental royalty, held over him. The body-guard and conquering
party of the chief are Greek soldiers. Many of these peculiari-
ties are also seen in the larger frieze, and also in the style of the
lions and statues. The form of the building, which alone I can
reconcile with the remains, is a Carian monument* of the Ionic
order. Bearing in mind all these points, I am strongly inclined
to attribute this work to the mercenaries from iEolia and Ionia,
brought down by Harpagus to conquer the inhabitants of Xan-
thus, whom they are said to have utterly destroyed. This monu-
ment may have been the tomb of a chief, or erected as a memorial
of the conquest of the city by Harpagus. "No inscription has
been found, or it might probably have thrown some light upon
the date of this work. In the immediate neighbourhood were
found the other friezes, representing hunting scenes, a battle,
offerings of various kinds and by different nations, funeral feasts,
and several statues which are of the same date.
The whole of the remaining works now to be traced amidst the
ruins of Xanthus are decidedly of a late date; scarcely any are
to be attributed to a period preceding the Christian era, and to
that age I cannot conceive the works just noticed to have belonged.
A triumphal arch or gateway of the city at the foot of the cliff of
which I have spoken has upon it a Greek inscription, showing it
to have been erected in the reign of Vespasianf, a.d. 80: from
this arch are the metopes and triglyphs now in the Museum.
Through this is a pavement of flagstones leading towards the
theatre. To this age I should attribute the theatre, agora, and
most of the buildings which I have called Greek, and which are
marked red upon the plan. To this people belong the immense
quantity of Mosaic pavements which have existed in all parts of
the city. Almost all the small pebbles in the fields are the debris
of these works : in many places we have found patterns remaining,
which are of coarse execution, but Greek in design.
Near one of the old walls of the Acropolis we laid open an esta-
* # Lycia, p. 76. I have many other drawings made at Alinda and
other cities of similar monuments.
f Above the two lines of inscription had been a line of similar Greek
characters, which had been purposely erased,—possibly of an earlier
benefactor.