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CHAPTER X.

EXTANT WORKS OF FIFTH CENTURY B.C.

(CONTINUED.)

Lycian Art,

of which we have numerous and highly interesting remains, bears a
strong affinity to Attic art, although it was greatly modified by local
influences, both religious and artistic. The extant monuments are
precisely what we should look for in the productions of Attic sculptors
working in Lycia with Lycian views.

The most important of these is the so-called

Harpy Monument,

about Ol. 70 (B.C. 500),

discovered in 1838 on the Acropolis of Xanthos, by Sir C.
Fellowes, and now in the British Museum. This, in every way,
most remarkable work consists of a rectangular tower, made
from a single block of limestone, with a flat roof, immediately
under which is a frieze' about twenty-one feet from the ground (fig.
43). In one side of the frieze, under the figure of a cow, is a
rectangular opening (fig. 43, a), rather more than half the height of
the frieze, through which the urn containing the ashes of the dead

1 tiSi><t>6pos, t\awart[ Iv fl&ixjiopt? (Conze, Corpus /user. Cr. 2840).