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Surroundings:

City gate.''Dancer'' tombLycian monumental tombs, the Harpy tomb and the pillared sarcophagusRoman colonnaded street running north-south (decumanus)Hellenistic fortifications of XanthosXanthos  BasilicaXanthus, DecumanusTripylon leading to the DecumanusXanthos Theatre East EntranceXanthos - theatreXanthos TheatreXanthos - theatreThe Roman theatre, built in the mid-2nd century ADRoman theatre and Lycian tombsXanthus TheaterXanthos  ''Dromos Building''Xanthos  ''Dromos Building''Xanthos  ''Dromos Building''Pillar tombXanthos  ''Harpy & Pillar'' TombsRoman Theatre in XanthosHarp Monument. XanthosHarpy TombXanthos West AgoraXanthus AgoraXanthos  Inscribed PillarInscribed Pillar of Xanthos - Harpagus SteleXanthos ''Dancers Tomb''Xanthos ''Dancers Tomb''Xanthos ''Dancers Tomb''

Location:

  • Türkiye, Kınık
  • geo:36.354771,29.320221
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -385~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Annotations

Te Nereid monument is a  the tomb of Arbinas, the last dynast of Xan-thos, who died about 370 BC,

Sources:

  1. Anthony Keen; "The Dynastic Tombs of Xanthos: Who Was Buried Where?". Anatolian Studies. 42:  (1992), p.  53.
  2. Lucia Novakova, Andrea Durianova: Closer to Heaven: The Tradition of Above Ground Burials in Western Anatolia. In: ΕΥΔΑΙΜΩΝ, Charles University, Faculty of Arts/ Masaryk Univeristy 2018
  3. Nereid Monument (N. Yıldırım – H. Kökmen), in: Excavations at Xanthos in 2012 - Batı Agora / West Agora; 2013, ANMED – H. Kökmen) - http://www.akmedanmed.com/pdf/2013/11_ksanthos.pdf
  4. Lycian Monuments https://www.lycianmonuments.com/xanthos/ 
  5. A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities, British museum
    by British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities; Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941  p.1 - 59  Internet Archive       https://archive.org/details/catalogueofsculp02britiala                                          

Nearby

Xanthos Sextus Marcius Priscus Gate

Built by Lycian governor Sextus Marcius Priscus, honouring Emperor Vespasian. Erected behind an earlier Classsical gate.

Lower Agora, Xanthos

Ancient City of Xanthos, Kinik Village.

Xanthos, Roman Basilica

Roman basilica of Xanthos between the Upper and Lower Agora.


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