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THE NEREID MONUMENT. 501

CHAPTER XLIII.

LYCIAN ART. THE NEREID MONUMENT OF
XANTHOS.

In the year 1838 Sir Charles Fellows discovered, about half a mile to

the east of the Acropolis of Xanthos, in Lycia, a very remarkable

structure feet loncf by

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22 feet broad, composed of
massive blocks of scaglia,
the stone of the country.

In the immediate neigh- ^'^^-Z^--^^ "T ^-S^"^t>
bourhood of this solid ba- S
sis, which resembles other
buildings found in Lycia,
lay the architectural mem-
bers of a small Greek tem-
ple, and fragments of stat-
ues and reliefs with which
it had been ornamented.





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From these debris, mingled
in utter confusion, Fellows
reconstructed an elegant
Ionic temple or hcroon,
surrounded on all sides by

nekkii) monument RESTORED,

pillars, of w hich the above-
mentioned substructure formed the lofty basis.1 The architect
Falkcner also made a reconstruction based on very accurate measure-
ments, which differs in some respects from that of Sir Charles Fellows,

1 Fellows, 'Ionic tn>/7ir monument of Xanthos.'