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:
- Goldwin Smith Hall, former Temple of Zeus space
previously, Warehouse
Xanthos, Turkey (discovery site) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0203
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 83
pencil written on front right corner: 64b
on top rim 3
black marker on back: Goldwin Smith Hall basement18
203 - File Name:
- CCC_0203.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 135 (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:
- 60.5 x 133 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 a line of eight overlapping and seemingly identical hoplites in battle, facing right. Each holds a shield with his left arm and each extends his left leg forward while leaning back on his right. The slab is damaged along the top in the original so that the head of only the fifth figure from the left is preserved. He wears a helmet and turns his head to look back.
British Museum 868
Childs: 2nd frieze, south, first block on left, long angle slab. - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 1848,1020.64 - 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.