Smith, Arthur H. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 2) (London, 1900)

PREFACE.

This, the Second volume of the Catalogue of Greek
Sculpture, has been prepared, as was the First, by Mr.
Arthur H. Smith, Assistant in the Department of Greek
and Eoman Antiquities.

The sculpture and architecture with which it deals are
mainly the fruit of four separate expeditions promoted
by Her Majesty's Government: (1) that of Sir Charles
Fellows in Lycia, 1842; (2) that of Sir Charles New-
ton at Halicarnassos and Cnidos, 1856; (3) that of Sir
R. Murdoch Smith and Commander Porcher to Cyrene,
1861; and (4) that of Mr. J. T. Wood at Ephesus, 1863-
1874.

Among the sculptures the most important, from an
artistic point of view, are those of the Nereid Monument
at Xanthos, in Lycia. Yet these sculptures have not
liitherto been described in a comprehensive manner except
in a memoir by Professor Michaelis in the Annali and
Monumenti of the German Archaeological Institute in
Rome, 1874-5. Similarly the architectural and sculptured
remains of the later temple of Artemis at Ephesus,
though the subject of not a little dispute among
archaeologists, have not previously been described and
discussed collectively. In recent years the constructional
problems of the Mausoleum have tempted a number of