Cast of frieze from the podium of the Nereid Monument, Xanthos
Details
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Title
Cast of frieze from the podium of the Nereid Monument, Xanthos
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Associated place
Xanthus (find spot of original) -
Date
2nd half of the 19th century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
102 x 153 cm estimated (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1890.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.A.118
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Catalogue text
London, British Museum.
A 116-7 Found by C. Fellows in 1842 on the north side of hill in Xanthos in Lycia, Turkey.
Taken to the British Museum between 1844-46.
Funerary monument from Xanthos, Lycia. The sculptural decoration consisted of: four friezes; two—one above the other—on the upper part of the podium; one on the epistyle and one around the cella; a pedimental group; acroteria, and statues in the round (‘Nereids’, ‘Aurai’) between the columns.
London, British Museum, cat. 855.
Exact find-spot unknown.
Here a relief with archer wearing helmet and holding shield, rearing horse with rider wearing chiton, cuirass and boots, and hoplite wearing chiton, cuirass, chlamys, and crested helmet and holding shield. From the large podium frieze of the monument.
Plaster added above to stabilize the cast.In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
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