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_0202
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 83
Goldwin Smith Hall basement 21 (black marker in the back)
202 - File Name:
- CCC_0202.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 149 (W) cm
- 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)
Ancient warfare - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 61 x 145 x 5.2 (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 soldiers inside and outside of merlon-topped city walls. At the left (viewer's) side of the slab, a helmeted soldier stands on a tower situated inside the walls and speaks to a group of helmeted, shield-bearing soldiers who face him from below. To the right of this group, a foregrounded tower marks the end of the walls. On the right half of the slab, several other figures are depicted outside of and facing the walls. A figure in Persian garb stands along the right flank of a saddled horse that is depicted in the foreground and holds its reins. A large mound of earth is piled up against the walls between that group and several other soldiers who are further backgrounded on the slab, some of whom are obscured by damage in the original.
British Museum 878
Childs: 2nd frieze, south, 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. 1848,1020.67 - 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.