The monument known as the Harpy Tomb was discovered by Fellows among the ruins of Xanthos on April 19, 1838. It was more carefully examined and published by him in 1840 (_Lycia_, p. 170, and plate), and was brought to England in the spring of 1842. The tomb was described by Fellows in the following terms:--"The Harpy Tomb consisted of a square shaft in one block, weighing about eighty tons, its height seventeen feet, placed upon a base rising on one side six feet from the ground, on the other but little above the present level of the earth. Around the sides of the top of the shaft were ranged the bas-reliefs in white marble about three feet three inches high; upon these rested a capstone, apparently a series of stones, one projecting over the other; but these are cut in one block, probably fifteen to twenty tons in weight. Within the top of the shaft was hollowed out a chamber, which, with the bas-relief sides was seven feet six inches high, and seven feet square." (Fellows, _Xanthian Marbles_, p. 21; _Asia Minor_, p. 438.) For views of this tomb see the drawing by Scharf here reproduced (pl. iii.); also _Mon. dell' Inst._, iv., pl. 2; Benndorf, _Reisen in Lykien_, i., pl. 26. In Christian times, the tomb was made the cell of some _Stylites_, or dweller on a column. Traces of painting and monograms were found on the interior of the chamber. (Fellows, _Xanthian Marbles_, p. 21; Birch, _Archæologia_, xxx., p. 186.) [Sidenote: 1.] _West Side._--This relief is divided into two unequal parts by a small doorway which formed the entrance to the tomb. This doorway may have been filled up with a slab of stone, resembling a funeral stelè, and the idea thus suggested was further carried out by the sculpture above of a cow giving suck to a calf. (Compare the tomb on the second frieze of the Xanthian Nereid Monument, _Mon. dell' Inst._, x., pl. 16, fig. 161.) On the left of the entrance is an enthroned female figure. She is large and dignified, and is heavily draped. The left hand is raised, the right hand is extended and holds a bowl; she is adorned with stephanè and bracelets. The arm of the chair terminates in a ram's head, and is supported by a seated Sphinx. On the right is a second enthroned female figure of equal dignity. She is adorned with a stephanè and bracelets. With a graceful, if affected gesture of the right hand she holds up a pomegranate flower, and in the left hand she holds a pomegranate fruit. The back of the throne terminates in a swan's head, and the arm terminates in the head of a ram. Three maidens, who are nearly alike, except in the attitudes of the hands, approach this figure. The first raises her mantle and chiton with the left and right hands respectively. The second has a pomegranate flower in her left hand, and a pomegranate fruit in her right hand. The third holds up an egg with her right hand, and holds the drapery in her left hand. [Sidenote: 2.]