Height, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 4 feet 1/2 inch.
[Sidenote: =764.=]
Cast of the lower relief on the right or east side of the portico.
View of part of a city with castellated walls and turrets, built on
natural rocks. On the right is a large structure resembling a tomb. On
the left is a staircase, leading up to a door in a turret.
Height, 2 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 1/2 inch. The four reliefs
are engraved, Fellows, _Lycia_, pl. facing p. 142; Benndorf,
_Reisen in Lykien_, I., p. 54; _Synopsis_, _Lycian Room_, Nos.
148, 149.
[Sidenote: =765, 766.=]
The following casts are from a portion of the sculptures decorating a
tomb, discovered by Sir C. Fellows, at _Cadyanda_. The tomb is cut out
of a large piece of detached rock, and in type somewhat resembles
the large Lycian tombs in the British Museum, or the tomb of Xanthos,
shown in the background of pl. iii., the principal difference being in
the treatment of the roof. At the end of the tomb are two doors. One
door is filled with an immovable panel, with a figure of a draped
bearded man holding an oinochoè, and inscribed [Greek: Salas], and in
Lycian _zzala_. The second door is believed to have been fitted with a
panel, having the wife of Salas in relief. (Fellows, _Lycia_, p.
117.) The reliefs, of which casts are preserved in the British Museum,
formed a frieze immediately below the cornice on each side of the
tomb. Below this frieze on each side was a combat of warriors on a
larger scale.
Fellows, _Lycia_, p. 116; Petersen, _Reisen in Lykien_, II.,
p. 193. Views and plans of the tomb are included in the Scharf
portfolio of drawings in the British Museum.
[Sidenote: =765.=]
Cast of a portion of the relief on the south side of the tomb at
_Cadyanda_.
At the left end of the relief a girl draped in plain long chiton
with sleeves, and a cap with tassel, stands to the right holding an
aryballos and alabastron. On the left of the principal relief is a
group of four figures playing with knuckle-bones. In front are a girl
seated and a girl kneeling, both closely draped and having long hair.
Behind are a youth standing, wrapped in a mantle, and a woman who
holds an aryballos in her left hand and wears her mantle over her
head. All the figures make animated gestures. Near the head of the
youth is the inscription [Greek: Mesos]. Next on the right is a woman
seated, holding a boy in her hands, and wearing her mantle over her
head. Behind her is a female figure, much mutilated, standing to the
left with her right hand under her chin. The remainder of the relief,
which is not represented by a cast, appears to have contained either a
sacrificial group (Scharf), or warriors (Petersen, _Reisen in Lykien_,
ii., p. 193).
Height, 2 feet 3/4 inch; length, 4 feet 2 inches. Fellows,
_Lycia_, frontispiece, and pl. facing p. 116; _Synopsis_, _Lycian
Room_, No. 151; Petersen, _Reisen in Lykien_, II., p. 194, fig.
84.
[Sidenote: =766.=]
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