Nereid Monument, sculptured tomb from Xanthos , Lycia, Achaemenid Persian Empire, Fethiye, Turkey , 390 BC, a tomb for Arbinas, Achaemenid Empire,

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The Nereid Monument is the largest and finest of the Lykian tombs found at Xanthos in south-west Turkey. This is actually a reconstruction of one of the sides of the monument. The Nereid Monument takes its name from the Nereids, sea-nymphs whose statues were placed between the columns of this monumental tomb. It was built for Erbinna (Greek Arbinas), ruler of Lycian Xanthos, south-west Turkey. Although he was not Greek, Erbinna chose to be buried in a tomb that resembles a Greek temple of the Ionic order. The reconstructed façade of the monument in the British Museum

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