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)

CATALOGUE

OF

GREEK SCULPTURE.

PART IV.

THE NEREID MONUMENT, AND LATER
LYCIAN SCULPTURES.

THE NEREID MONUMENT.

The richly-adorned Ionic structure which is known
as the Nereid Monument was discovered at Xanthos,
in Lycia, hy Sir Charles Fellows. On his first visit to
Xanthos, in April, 1838, that traveller saw a single slab
of the fourth frieze, and on his second visit, in April,
1840, he found a slab of the first frieze. The naval
expedition of Jan., Feb., 1842, with which Fellows
was associated, excavated the remains of the monument,
and arranged for their transport to England.

The position occupied by the Nereid Monument was
the brow of a conspicuous though not lofty cliff, rising
immediately above the main approach to the city, distant
about half a mile from the Acropolis. The whole of the
building, except a part of the solid substructure, had been
shaken down by an earthquake, and when discovered the
remains were scattered round the substructure and for a
considerable distance down the slopes of the hill.

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