Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 128
assume the form of temples. The Harpy tomb,formerly in the acropolis of Xanthus, now in the British Museum,affords examples of archaic sculpture, its date being probably notlater than 500 B.C.; the sculptures decorated the four sides of arectangular solid shaft, about 17 feet high, and supported a… … TOMB OF SOUTHERN ITALY. of Lycia, discovered at Xanthus, now in the British Museum. Itresembles a roofed house, with beams issuing forth from the gables, i TOMBS. 107 the arch of the roof resembling that of the early Gothic. On eachside of the roof is sculptured an armed warrior, conjectured to…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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