Nereid Monument, lesser podium frieze
- Title:
- Nereid Monument, lesser podium frieze
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 390-380 BCE
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Xanthos, Turkey (discovery site) (original)
- Location:
- Klarman Hall, ground floor, north entry wing
previously, Warehouse
Xanthos, Turkey (discovery site) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0201
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 83
63 (in relief on front)
Goldwin Smith Hall basement17 (black marker on back)
201 - File Name:
- CCC_0201.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 129 (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)
Ancient warfare - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 59.5 x 127 x 5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a well-preserved cast of a damaged slab from the lesser podium frieze of the Nereid Monument at Xanthos, a tomb built for the Lycian ruler Erbinna, showing six soldiers standing side by side, all but one facing left. The top portion of the slab is heavily damaged in the original. Only the helmeted head of the fourth figure from the left remains largely intact. The first soldier from the left is depicted in profile, holding a shield along his left side and raising his right arm. The next figure, an archer who is shown in three-quarter view, holds a quiver at his left side and raises his right arm. The third figure stands facing front with his heavily damaged (in the original) head turned to look left. He raises both arms, the right higher than the left. The fifth figure stands holding a shield with a cloth hanging from it at his left. All of his body is obscured except his head and feet. The fifth figure, frontally posed, looks to the right, perhaps in conversation with his compatriot. He holds his right arm in the air and carries a shield on his left, which is slung around so that very little of it is visible. The sixth and final figure, whose head is entirely missing in the original, is shown in profile facing left. He holds a shield on his left side.
British Museum 880
Childs: 2nd frieze, east, fifth from the left. - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 1848,1020.63 - 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.