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FRAGMENTS FHOM XANTHOS.
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the upper part of the bull, ou each side, are nude human
legs, which are on a smaller scale than the kneeling
figure, and appear to have belonged to two boys climbing
over the bull. At the left of the kneeling figure there
is a plain return surface, and this may have been one side
of the door (cf. the Lion Tomb, No. 80). A part of the
walls and floor of the inner chamber is seen at the back
of the fragment, and the position of its external angle
is shown above the bull's neck.
Found built into a wall of lite theatre, between the Harpy
Tomb and the Acropolis,—Xanthos.
Limestone. Height, 2 feet 4 inches ; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Fellows.
Lycia, pi. facing ]i. 175 (entirely misunderstood). Benndnrf,
Jleivon, p. 70. Jahrcsheftc, III., p, 106.
CASTS FROM LYCTA.N TOMBS.
954. Casts f rom a painted tomb in the north-east necropolis
at Myra. This tomb, which was discovered by Sir C.
Fellows, is of the usual type, with an outer and 'inner
chamber, all cut in the rock, and imitating a wooden
structure. The reliefs are cut in the rock on each side of
the torn I', and also on the sides of the outer chamber of
the tomb. A considerable amount of colour was found on
the reliefs, which has been imitated on the casts. The
reliefs represent a husband and wife, who are of heroic
scale, and attended by members of their family.
Within the portico of the tomb are the following:
1. On the loft, a bearded figure, half draped, recumbent
on a couch, with a bowl in his left hand and a rhyton
held up in his right hand. [Compare the figures on the
Nereid Monument, Nos. 898, 903.]
According to Scharf's drawing, the couch was painted
in red and blue on yellow, with a lion within a panel.
The figure was flesh-coloured, the drapery purple, the
rhyton yellow, and the ground red.
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the upper part of the bull, ou each side, are nude human
legs, which are on a smaller scale than the kneeling
figure, and appear to have belonged to two boys climbing
over the bull. At the left of the kneeling figure there
is a plain return surface, and this may have been one side
of the door (cf. the Lion Tomb, No. 80). A part of the
walls and floor of the inner chamber is seen at the back
of the fragment, and the position of its external angle
is shown above the bull's neck.
Found built into a wall of lite theatre, between the Harpy
Tomb and the Acropolis,—Xanthos.
Limestone. Height, 2 feet 4 inches ; width, 2 feet 4 inches. Fellows.
Lycia, pi. facing ]i. 175 (entirely misunderstood). Benndnrf,
Jleivon, p. 70. Jahrcsheftc, III., p, 106.
CASTS FROM LYCTA.N TOMBS.
954. Casts f rom a painted tomb in the north-east necropolis
at Myra. This tomb, which was discovered by Sir C.
Fellows, is of the usual type, with an outer and 'inner
chamber, all cut in the rock, and imitating a wooden
structure. The reliefs are cut in the rock on each side of
the torn I', and also on the sides of the outer chamber of
the tomb. A considerable amount of colour was found on
the reliefs, which has been imitated on the casts. The
reliefs represent a husband and wife, who are of heroic
scale, and attended by members of their family.
Within the portico of the tomb are the following:
1. On the loft, a bearded figure, half draped, recumbent
on a couch, with a bowl in his left hand and a rhyton
held up in his right hand. [Compare the figures on the
Nereid Monument, Nos. 898, 903.]
According to Scharf's drawing, the couch was painted
in red and blue on yellow, with a lion within a panel.
The figure was flesh-coloured, the drapery purple, the
rhyton yellow, and the ground red.