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

FRAGMENTS OF EYCIAN SCULPTURE.

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and of the rider falling backwards. Below is a wounded
figure, recumbent. Above are a floral scroll, and egg and
tongue and bead and reel mouldings. Below is a row of
palmettes. On the back are two Gryphons, confronted,
each having one paw raised. Between them is a
candelabrum. The body of the Gryphon on the right is
mostly lost. Simple mouldings above and below the
relief. Xanthos.

This fragment and the following (Nos. 957-960) are
those of which Fellows (Travels, p. 503) remarks: ' On
the plain at the foot of the elevation upon which the city
was placed, we disinterred the remains of a mausoleum.
In this room, which had vaults beneath, stood four
sarcophagi, raised upon pedestals. ... I have collected
the fragments of each sarcophagus.'

Marble. Height, 3 feet 4 inches; width, l! feet 10 inches; actual
length, 6 feet 10 inches; original length, 7 feet 10 inches.
Synopsis, Lycian Room, No. 168. A plan of the Mausoleum
and drawings of the sarcophagi are preserved in the Lycian
Portfolios in the British Museum.

957. (b) Part of the cover of the sarcophagus, No. 957, sur-
mounted by a group, of which there remain part of the
body and the left hand of a draped male figure reclining
to the right, holding a scroll, partly unrolled, and the
right elbow and part of the drapery of a female figure,
also reclining.

At the right end of the cover is a design in low relief
of rectangular and diamond-shaped panels with rosettes.
Xantltos.

Marble. Height, 2 feet 1 inch ; length, 3 feet 4 inches. Synopsis,
Lyci'M lioom, No. 168.

958. Fragments of a sarcophagus and cover. On the four
sides are subjects in relief. Side A ; A nude boy, turned
to the front, appears to be holding a hoop, of which only
a small part remains. His hair is plaited on the top of