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LYCIAN ROOM. 
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discovery. The Monument, as thus restored, is an Ionic peristyle 
"building, with fourteen columns placed round a solid cella, and with 
statues in the intercolumniations, the whole elevated on a basement, 
podium, which stands on two steps. This building was supposed by 
Sir C. Fellows to have been a trophy in memory of the conquest of 
Lycia by the Persians under Harpagos, B.C. 545 ; but this is not pro- 
bable, as the style of the architecture and sculptures shows that it 
must be assigned to a much later date. Recent authorities suppose 
this monument to have been erected in the first half of the fourth 
century B.C., in honour of a native Satrap or ruler of Lycia, probably 
the Satrap Perikles, who, as we know from a fragment of Theopompos 
(Fragmenta Hist. Graec. I. p. 95), attacked and captured the town of 
Telmessos. 
On the walls of the Room are the several friezes which decorated 
the building (Engraved, Mon. d. Inst. Arch. Rom. X. Pll. 13-18). 
Nos. 4-19 are slabs of the broad frieze which is believed to have 
encircled the lowermost part of the basement, representing a battle 
between Asiatic warriors, some of whom are mounted, and Greeks. 
These are placed round the West half of the Room. 
Nos. 20a-37 are portions of the narrow frieze which ran round 
the uppermost part of the basement (see the Model), and which re- 
presented, according to the most recent interpretation, four scenes : 
(1) An attack upon the gates of a fortress ; (2) The siege of a 
fortress ; (3) The capitulation of a fortress, and (4) battles in the 
open field. These slabs are placed on the North and South walls of 
both the West and the East divisions of the Room. 
No. 20a, in the West side of the Room, is an assault upon a fortress 
with the aid of a scaling-ladder: on the next slab, No. 21, are warriors 
advancing to the attack in single file. 
Nos. 22, 23, 24a, scenes of combat. 
No. 24b, warriors advancing probably, to attack the fortress, which 
is represented in the Eastern half of the Room on slabs 25, 26, 27. 
Nos. 28, 29, 30, on the same wall, and Nos. 31, 32, on the opposite 
wall, represent scenes of battle. On No. 33 prisoners are being con- 
ducted in single file. 
Nos. 34, 35, 36 represent probably the same fortress after its 
capture. On No. 36 is a Satrap seated, and attended by a slave 
holding a parasol over his head : the figures advancing towards him 
are probably the vanquished enemy tendering their submission. 
On No. 35, above the lower line of fortifications, is seen a tomb sur- 
mounted by a Sphinx between two lions. 
No. 37 represents warriors standing conversing, and 
No. 20b warriors advancing in single file. 
Nos. 38-43 are slabs of a narrow frieze which encircled the cella 
of the monument (see the Model), and which represents a banquet, 
with a sacrifice of rams, bulls, and goats. 
Nos. 44-47, on the Eastern wall, are slabs of a narrow frieze 
which surmounted the columns of the peristyle, representing a battle 
of horsemen and warriors on foot. 
