Nereid Monument, greater podium frieze
- Title:
- Nereid Monument, greater podium frieze
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 390-380 BCE
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Xanthos, Turkey (discovery site) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Xanthos, Turkey (discovery site) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0112
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 84
87 (carved in, upside down in left hand corner)
67 (pencil on the top)
112 - File Name:
- CCC_0112.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 137 (W) cm
- Culture:
- Lycian
- Style/Period:
- Greek Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
reliefs (sculptures) - Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in relief (original) - Subject:
- Sepulchral Monuments
Xanthos (Ancient city)
Combat - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 65 x 135 x 5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a well-preserved cast of a damaged slab from the greater podium frieze of the Nereid Monument at Xanthos, a tomb built for the Lycian ruler Erbinna, showing three warriors and a fallen horse. At the left (viewer's) of the frame a warrior depicted in frontal view, nude except for a chlamys, lunges to the right. With his outstretched left arm he makes hostile contact with the warrior in the middle of the slab, who wears a belted chiton and chlamys and is shown in three-quarter view facing towards the left. He braces himself and brings his right leg over to step off of his fallen horse. The horse's front legs have crumpled and its neck is bent around so that its face rests on the ground. The third warrior lunges toward the right edge of the slab placing his weight on his bent left leg, which rests on a rock. He wears a chiton. The heads of all three figures are damaged or missing in the original, as is much of the torso of the third figure.
British Museum 861
Childs: 1st frieze, north, fifth from left. - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 1848,1020.48 - 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.