Berlitz: Turkey Pocket Guide by APA

Author:APA
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Turkey
Publisher: APA
Published: 2012-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Ruins at the Letoön

Frank Noon/APA

Like the other Lycian cities, Xanthos is littered with rock tombs, including a 5th-century BC pillar tomb with 250 lines describing the exploits of a champion local wrestler; this is the most extensive known script in the Lycian language. The so-called Harpy Tomb is richly carved with figures that are half-woman and half-bird and appear to be ushering the dead into the afterlife. These reliefs are not the originals – they and many other artefacts were carried away from Xanthos in 1842 by archaeologist Charles Fellows. Most, including the Ionic temple known as the Nereid Monument, are now in the British Museum. Among immovable monuments in Xanthos, the city gate and theatre are Roman, the monastery and mosaic-decorated basilica are Byzantine.

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