Nereid Monument
Nereid Monument. Reconstruction (1969). British Museum.
A sculptured Lykian temple tomb from Xanthos in present-day Turkey. The ruins were rediscovered by British traveller Charles Fellows in the early 1840s. Fellows had them shipped to the British Museum. The tomb dates from around 390 to 380 BC, and was probably the tomb of Arbinas.
"Nereid Room, containing the sculptures from the so-called Nereid Monument at Xanthos in Lycia (end of 5th cent. B.C.). ... on the S. wall of the room is a 'restoration' of one of the sides of the monument. Nine Nereids, some much mutilated, stand in this room. On the walls are fragments of four friezes that adorned the building. The broad frieze, supposed to have encircled the base, represents a battle between Greeks and Asiatic warriors, some of whom are mounted ... "--Baedeker 1915. IMG_1811