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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
never represented. The lower part of the relief is wanting.
A drawing by Scharf shows the colouring of the relief
when discovered. The background was blue; the hair,
the under side of the Siren's wings, the drapery of the
man on the left, the shaft and part of the capital of the
column were yellow; the drapery of the Siren and of
the man on the right, the seats and part of the capital
of the column were red.—Xcmthos.
Limestone ; height, 2 feet 9 inches ; width, 3 feet 5 inches. Annali
dell' Inst., 1844, p. 150.
The Harpy Tomb.
94. The monument known as the Harpy Tomb was dis-
covered by Fellows among the ruins of Xanthos on
April 19, 1838. It was more carefully examined and
published by him in 1840 (Lycia, p. 170, and plate), and
was brought to England in the spring of 1842. The tomb
was described by Fellows in the following terms :—" The
Harpy Tomb consisted of a square shaft in one block,
weighing about eighty tons, its height seventeen feet,
placed upon a base rising on one side six feet from the
ground, on the other but little above the present level of
the earth. Around the sides of the top of the shaft were
ranged the bas-reliefs in white marble about three feet
three inches high ; upon these rested a capstone, apparently
a series of stones, one projecting over the other ; but these
are cut in one block, probably fifteen to twenty tons in
weight. Within the top of the shaft was hollowed out
a chamber, which, with the bas-relief sides was seven
feet six inches high, and seven feet square." (Fellows,
Xanthian Marhles, p. 21 ; Asia Minor, p. 438.) For views
of this tomb see the drawing by Scharf here reproduced
(pi. iii.) ; also Mon. delV Inst., iv., pi. 2 ; Benndorf, Beisen
in Lykien, i., pi. 26. In Christian times, the tomb was made
the cell of some Stylites, or dweller on a column. Traces
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
never represented. The lower part of the relief is wanting.
A drawing by Scharf shows the colouring of the relief
when discovered. The background was blue; the hair,
the under side of the Siren's wings, the drapery of the
man on the left, the shaft and part of the capital of the
column were yellow; the drapery of the Siren and of
the man on the right, the seats and part of the capital
of the column were red.—Xcmthos.
Limestone ; height, 2 feet 9 inches ; width, 3 feet 5 inches. Annali
dell' Inst., 1844, p. 150.
The Harpy Tomb.
94. The monument known as the Harpy Tomb was dis-
covered by Fellows among the ruins of Xanthos on
April 19, 1838. It was more carefully examined and
published by him in 1840 (Lycia, p. 170, and plate), and
was brought to England in the spring of 1842. The tomb
was described by Fellows in the following terms :—" The
Harpy Tomb consisted of a square shaft in one block,
weighing about eighty tons, its height seventeen feet,
placed upon a base rising on one side six feet from the
ground, on the other but little above the present level of
the earth. Around the sides of the top of the shaft were
ranged the bas-reliefs in white marble about three feet
three inches high ; upon these rested a capstone, apparently
a series of stones, one projecting over the other ; but these
are cut in one block, probably fifteen to twenty tons in
weight. Within the top of the shaft was hollowed out
a chamber, which, with the bas-relief sides was seven
feet six inches high, and seven feet square." (Fellows,
Xanthian Marhles, p. 21 ; Asia Minor, p. 438.) For views
of this tomb see the drawing by Scharf here reproduced
(pi. iii.) ; also Mon. delV Inst., iv., pi. 2 ; Benndorf, Beisen
in Lykien, i., pi. 26. In Christian times, the tomb was made
the cell of some Stylites, or dweller on a column. Traces