of southwestern Anatolia (present-day Turkey). Many of the tombs at Xanthos are pillar tombs, formed of a stone burial chamber on top of a large stone...
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noted that Xanthos was the largest city in Lycia. The important religious sanctuary of Leto at Letoon, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of Xanthos, dates from...
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Nereid Monument (category Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)
Nereid Monument (Tomb of Arbinas) The Nereid Monument is a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in Lycia (then part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire), close to...
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The Tomb of Payava is a Lycian tall rectangular free-standing barrel-vaulted stone sarcophagus, and one of the most famous tombs of Xanthos. It was built...
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Letoon trilingual (redirect from Xanthos trilingual inscription)
well as for the tomb at Xanthos. Moreover, the term Xanthos trilingual (Lycian A, Lycian B, Greek) is sometimes used of the tomb at Xanthos. In the latter...
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tombs and sarcophagi appear from the mid-5th century BC onwards. Xanthos has 43 monumental tombs of which 17 are sculptured and 35 are pillar tombs,...
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territory of Lycia, remarkable for its numerous monumental tombs such as the Tombs at Xanthos, from which he took his inspiration for his mausoleum. Artemisia...
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them. The tombs at Xanthos, Lycia, are funerary architecture that display the cultural synthesis enacted by a Lycian Dynasty. The tombs at Xanthos primarily...
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Xanthian Obelisk (redirect from Xanthos Obelisk)
Xanthian Obelisk, also known as the Xanthos or Xanthus Stele, the Xanthos or Xanthus Bilingual, the Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos or Xanthus, the Harpagus Stele...
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Lycia (category Rock-cut tombs)
the repopulation of Xanthos, Keen interprets Herodotus' "those Lycians who now say that they are Xanthians" to mean that Xanthos was repopulated by other...
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Column (section Pillar tombs)
pillars into tomb structures. In the ancient Greek colony of Lycia in Anatolia, one of these edifices is located at the tomb of Xanthos. In the town of...
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330 BC). They include: The Xanthus stele. The inscribed upper part of a tomb at Xanthos, called the Xanthus Stele or the Xanthus Obelisk. A Lycian A inscription...
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at the foot of Mount Cragus (now Mount Babadağ), and not far from the western bank of the River Xanthos, homonymous with the ancient city of Xanthos (now...
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incorporated pillars into tomb structures. Examples of such edifices are found in Lycia in Anatolia (e.g., the Harpy Tomb at Xanthos), and the medieval Muslim...
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the Nereid Monument, a marble tomb from Xanthos (Lycia, Asia Minor), partially in the collection of the British Museum. At the top is a small temple surrounded...
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adapted to the Julian calendar. The Cappadocian calendar was evidently devised at a time when Cappadocia, a historical region in present-day Turkey, was a province...
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Age. They built city-states along the Mediterranean Sea coast, such as Xanthos, Patara, Myra, Pinara, Tlos, Olympos, and Phaselis, and formed the Lycian...
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One of the free-standing tombs, the tomb of Payava, a Lykian aristocrat from Xanthos, and dated to 375-360 BCE, is visible at the British Museum. Both...
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rich. There is evidence of a fire that destroyed the wooden tombs and temples of Xanthos in around 470 BC. This fire was probably caused by Cimon of Athens...
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Pericles, Dynast of Lycia (section Tomb)
in the 370s BCE, when the power of the traditionally-dominant rulers of Xanthos in western Lycia began to wane. Trbbẽnimi minted several coins on the west...
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List of mausolea (category Lists of tombs)
the world, Bodrum Xanthos Tombs, Kınık, Turkey. Also known as the Nereid Monument Lycian rock cut tombs of Dalyan Lycian tombs at Simena, Üçağız Hierapolis...
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personally commanded a fleet which detached the coastal towns of Phaselis, Xanthos, Kaunos, Iasos and Myndus in Lycia and Caria from Antigonus, then crossed...
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Antiphellus (section King's Tomb)
the existence of over 100 tombs. In 1841, he produced drawings of specimens of ends of sarcophagi, pediments, and doors of tombs, and Thomas Abel Brimage...
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Italy founded (approximate date). 540 BC: Persians conquer Lycian city of Xanthos, now in southern Turkey (approximate date). 539 BC: Babylon is conquered...
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Istanbul Hattusa Gordion Mount Nemrut Arslantepe Hierapolis – Pamukkale Xanthos–Letoon Safranbolu Troy Selimiye Mosque Çatalhöyük Pergamon Bursa and Cumalıkızık...
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Mausolus (category Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)
be ruled by a series of minor dynasts, such as Kuprlli and Kheriga of Xanthos, Erbbina of Telmessos, and Arppakhu of Phellos. Pericles (Lycian: 𐊓𐊁𐊕𐊆𐊋𐊍𐊁...
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several impressive tombs such as those of Heinrich Schliemann, designed by Ernst Ziller; Ioannis Pesmazoglou; Georgios Averoff; and one tomb with a famous...
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inland, including in the district of Fethiye the cities of Telmessos, Xanthos, Patara and Tlos. Eventually the coast was conquered by Persians who were...
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Roman funerary art (section Types of tombs)
the interior of more elaborate tombs. Altars erected by the middle class were also set up in or outside of monumental tombs, but also in funerary precincts...
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Obelisk, found at Xanthos (which was known to the Lycians as Arñna), and another, shorter, inscription (nine lines) on a sarcophagus at Antiphellus (Habessus)...
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