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of which the removal was not found practicable, but of which facsimiles 
were necessary as illustrations of the history of art, and as documents 
for the study of a language and written character found in Lycia, and 
apparently peculiar to that part of Asia Minor. 
No. 1. Bas-reliefs from the so-called Harpy tomb, which stood on 
the acropolis of Xanthus, close to the Theatre. The sculptures, as will 
be seen by the model placed near it, decorated the four sides of a 
rectangular solid shaft, about seventeen feet high, weighing eighty 
tons, and supported a roof with a moulding, inclosing a chamber seven 
feet six inches square, entered by a small low door on the west side. 
This monument was never finished, the projection for raising the shaft 
still remaining, and the shaft having been polished only half way up. 
Its base was shaken, probably by one of those earthquakes by which 
the country is known to have been visited, and two of the slabs on the 
western side thrown on the ground. Various conjectural explanations 
of the sculptures have been proposed. The scene on the west side 
[6.] has been supposed to represent Hera or Juno seated, and holding 
a cup before the sacred cow of lo and Epaphus, Aphrodite, and the 
three Charites or Graces; others consider that the two seated 
figures represent Demeter (Ceres), and Kora (Proserpine), and 
the group between them the Three Horse or Seasons, or the 
Erinnyes or Furies. Three different explanations have been pio- 
posed for the scene on the east side, [a.] 1. Tantalus bringing to 
Pandarus in Lycia the golden dog stolen from Crete. 2. Asclepios 
(Aesculapius), the seated figure, in front Telesphorus, or Ganymedes 
and Artemis, behind him Charis and Pitho, two of the Graces. . 3. 
Neptune seated, before him a boy bffering a cock, and a man leaning 
on a staff; behind, Amphitrite and Amymone. On the north side 
[c.], at the corners, are two Harpies flying away with two of the 
daughters of Pandarus, having been sent for that purpose by Zeus, to 
avenge the theft and perjury of their father ; a third daughter, Aedon, 
who was saved from destruction, is represented fallen on her Knees 
and deploring the fate of her sisters. On this side also is a seated di- 
vinity, conjectured to be Zeus, or Pluto, under whose chair is an ani- 
mal,' “either a bear or boar; before him stands an armed man ; they hold 
a helmet between them. On the south side [c?.], at the cornel s, are 
two Harpies bearing off two of the daughters ot Pandarus. In the 
centre is a seated divinity, supposed to be Zeus, and a female offer- 
ing a dove, perhaps Aphrodite. 
"Nos. 2—8. Sculptured slabs representing Satyrs, a lion devouring 
a deer, panther, dog, bull, and boar. These form a kind of frieze ; 
they are executed in the stone of the country, and were found in the 
walls of the Acropolis of Xanthus. 
Nos. 9 — 16. Narrow frieze of cocks and hens, executed in the same 
style ; from the walls of the Acropolis of Xanthus. 
Nos. 17 — 21. Frieze, perhaps from a tomb; a procession of tw r o 
chariots, with old men and youthful charioteers, a led horse, a horseman, 
five figures of priests and priestesses with wands and torches, an armed 
female and a youth standing at the side of a column and chair : round 
inserted into the wall of the Acropolis of Xanthus. 
No. 21*. Fragment, apparently part of a chair. Xanthus. 
No. 22. Bas-relief, part of two draped females wearing sandals, one 
raises with her left hand the border of her talaric tunic. Xanthus. 
