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LATER MONUMENTS OF ASIA MINOR
remained almost unnoticed. But a few years ago an Austrian
expedition was sent to secure such remains of the monument
as have artistic value, and these are now deposited in the
Museum of Vienna. Unfortunately they have suffered terribly,
being of limestone and not of marble, from exposure to the
weather, and some of the friezes have almost perished. Casts
FIG. 76. HEROON OF GYEULBASHI.
of the better-preserved portions are to be found at South
Kensington and Oxford. And the whole monument is pub-
lished in the completest and most satisfactory form by
Professor Benndorf1.
In form the heroon differs entirely, as will be seen from
the engraving (Fig. 76) from other Lycian monuments. The
1 Das Heroon von Gjolbaschi-Trysa. O. Benndorf and G. Niemann. Wien,
1889. Our engraving is taken from pi. i. of this admirable work.
LATER MONUMENTS OF ASIA MINOR
remained almost unnoticed. But a few years ago an Austrian
expedition was sent to secure such remains of the monument
as have artistic value, and these are now deposited in the
Museum of Vienna. Unfortunately they have suffered terribly,
being of limestone and not of marble, from exposure to the
weather, and some of the friezes have almost perished. Casts
FIG. 76. HEROON OF GYEULBASHI.
of the better-preserved portions are to be found at South
Kensington and Oxford. And the whole monument is pub-
lished in the completest and most satisfactory form by
Professor Benndorf1.
In form the heroon differs entirely, as will be seen from
the engraving (Fig. 76) from other Lycian monuments. The
1 Das Heroon von Gjolbaschi-Trysa. O. Benndorf and G. Niemann. Wien,
1889. Our engraving is taken from pi. i. of this admirable work.