Nereid Monument, egg and dart molding from podium
- Title:
- Nereid Monument, egg and dart molding from podium
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 390-380 BCE
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Xanthos, Turkey (discovery site) (original)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room 122), Cornell University
Xanthos, Turkey (discovery site) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0735
- Accession Number:
- 284
- File Name:
- CCC_0735.tif
- Culture:
- Lycian
- Style/Period:
- Greek Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in relief (original) - Subject:
- Sepulchral Monuments
Xanthos (Ancient city)
Nereids (Greek mythology) - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 36 (without wood base) x 46 (with wood base) x 54 (centimeters, height x height x width)
- Description:
- This is a cast of an architectural block from the podium of the Nereid Monument at Xanthos, the tomb of Erbinna (Arbinas), an early fourth century ruler of Xanthos. It consists of a double row of decorative egg and dart molding topped by a fascia and underpinned by a narrow band of bead and reel decoration. The block is sculpted on a recessed plane. It comes from the top level of the monument's podium, which serves as its stylobate, and surmounts the podium's lesser frieze. This piece perhaps once belonged to the architectural cast collection originally housed in Lincoln Hall.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
- Bibliography:
- Ian Jenkins, Greek Architecture and its Sculpture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 186-202
William A. P. Childs and Pierre Demargne, Fouilles de Xanthos, vol. 8, Le Monument des Néréids, Le décor scuplté (Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1989)
W. R. Lethaby, "‘The Nereid Monument Re-Examined," JHS 35 (1915), 208-24
A. H. A. Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, vol. 2 (London, 1900) - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
London, British Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.