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male and female figure seated, one on each side of an Ionic column, 
on the top of which is a Harpy. Traces of colour remain on thi 3 
slab. Acropolis , Xanthus. 
Nos. 24—27. Fragments, apparently gable ends of a tomb with re- 
cesses, having on them the Sphinx, represented with the face of a female, 
the body of a lion, and the wings of a bird, as the daughter of the Chimaera, 
the indigenous monster of Lycia. Acropolis , Xanthus. 
Nos. 28—30. Draped torsos of three architectural figures, in diploid 
talaric tunics, one edge of which they seem to have been raising. Xanthus. 
No. 30 a. Fragment, apparently of a similar figure. Xanthus. 
No. 31. Chest, or soros, found on the top of one of the steles or 
pillar tombs at Xanthus. At the end, in bas-relief, is a lion fondling 
its cubs; and on one side a man standing and stabbing with a sword 
a lion standing on its hind paws; at the other side, a man mounted 
on horseback, followed by another on foot, and a hoplite holding 
a large Argolic buckler. 
No. 32. Fragment, apparently from the other end of the same or 
a similar sarcophagus ; on it a lioness fondling two cubs, one of which 
she holds in her mouth. 
No. 33. Square block, from the sides of which issue the fore parts of 
two lions. It was found at the foot of the inscribed monument, of 
which it was probably the epistema or crowning decoration. Compare 
the representation of a building surmounted by a sphinx and two lions 
in No. 61. Xanthus . 
Nos. 34 — 140. These sculptures and architectural members formed 
part of the building at Xanthus of which a restored model, with a 
ground plan of the remains as they were found in situ , and a picture 
of the scene of the discovery, are placed in this room. The model, 
made under the direction of Sir C. Fellows, and presented by him, 
exhibits an Ionic peristyle building, with fourteen columns running 
round a solid cella , and the statues in the intercolumniations, placed 
on a base, which stands upon two steps. The general dimensions are 
as follows: — Height from top of the pediment to base, 35 ft. 9 in. ; 
12 ft. 9 in. height of base; 3 ft. 4 in. breadth of broad frieze; 2 ft. 
breadth of narrow frieze ; 10 ft. 5 in. height of columns ; 1 ft. 6 in. 
breadth of frieze of cella ; 1 ft. 6 in. breadth of external frieze ; 3 ft. 
1^ in. height of pediment; 20 ft. breadth of base; 28 ft. length of 
base ; 9 ft. breadth of cella ; 15 ft. length of ditto. 
The object of this building has not yet been clearly ascertained ; 
by some it has been considered as a trophy in memory of the con- 
quest of Lycia by the Persians under Harpagus, in the 3rd year of 
the 58th Olympiad, b.c. 545, and probably erected about the 76th 
Olympiad, b.c. 476; by others the sculptures have been placed as late 
as the 83rd or even 96th Olympiad, b.c. 450 — 395. Another conjec- 
ture is that their subject represents the suppression, by the Persian 
satrap of Lycia, of the revolt of the Cilicians against the Persians, 
b.c. 387, Olymp. 98, 2. 
Nos. 34 — 49. Sculptures of the broader frieze which is supposed to 
have been placed round the base : they represent a series of contests of 
warriors armed in the Greek manner with helmets, crests, and Argolic 
bucklers, thoraces and greaves ; and others more lightly armed, some 
being only in tunics, or naked, and wearing only helmets against each 
other ; horsemen, &c. On Nos. 39 and 46 will be seen Asiatics wear- 
