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was introduced. Similar monuments were found in the same neigh-
bourhood ; and it seems to have been customary among the Carians and
Lycians to bury their dead at the top of towers of this kind, as we
learn from Arrian's description of the tomb of Cyrus.1 The frieze,
which is of white marble, is let into the tower on four sides, each
side containing three slabs, of which the central is the longest.

Fig. 43.

haki'y monument ix british museum.

The aperture above mentioned is not in the centre of the west side ;
if it were, the composition would have been divided into two exactly
equal halves, by which its beauty would have been greatly marred.
Above it is a cow (fig. 43,/') suckling a calf, executed in archaic

1 Arrian, Anab. vi. 29 : ra<pos—is Tfrpd- ipipovtrav ictus trrtv^v is nu\is kv tv\ auSpl ov
yaifov trxv^a TrtiroiTjToi &vaidev 5e olnriua [MeydKcp iroAAa icaKowaOovi'Ti iraptXQuv. Conf.
fireo-Ti XlBii/ov, iaTeyaa^ivov 6wpi$a ex011 SferalX), XV. 730.