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XVIII. Observations on the Xanthian Marbles recently deposited in the British Museum. By Samuel Birch, Esq.

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Previous to describing the interesting remains discovered by Mr. Fellows, in Lycia, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine and one thousand eight hundred and forty, and subsequently removed by the British Government, and deposited in the National Collection, it will be necessary to understand the variety of art exhibited on these marbles, and to take a succinct view of the vicissitudes experienced by the races which occupied the valley of the Xanthus. The manner in which the marbles were removed has been already announced elsewhere to the public; and the present Dissertation is only intended to consider them in respect to art, mythology, and the local history of the Xanthians.

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page 176 note a The Solymi were stated to be a Scythic race: ἐθνῆ Σκυθῶν. Cf. Hesychius voce Solymi. Apollonius, Lex. ἐθνος βαρβαρικὸν; Scholiast, ad Pindar, Olymp. xiii. places them between Lycia and Pamphylia. Josephus, Bell. Jud. lib. ii. c. 16. allies them to the Jews.

page 176 note b Lib. i. Clio, 173.

page 176 note c L. 184–6.

page 176 note d According to Ephorus they first ruled the sea. Scymnus Chius, 1. 543–5.

page 177 note d Herodot. loc. cit.

page 177 note e Paus. lib. iv.

page 177 note f Herodot. vii. 92.

page 177 note g As cited in Antoninus Liberalis, cap. xxx. Cf. Latini, Mythogr. Tres. i. 187.: ii. 17. The same story is told of Demeter or Ceres, i. 10. 95.

page 177 note h Steph. Byz. Voce Πατάρα.

page 177 note i By Mr. Daniel Sharpe, for whose ingenious researches vid. Fellows's Journal.

page 177 note j See Thirlwall, History of Greece, vol. I. p. 61. 111. Cf. Latini, Mythogr. Tres. ii. 131. who make “Abantem … qui et Iobates dicitur,” and send Bellerophon against the Calydones. Strab. viii. p. 572. Poll. I. 5. 50.

page 178 note k The story of Bellerophon is a Corinthian myth. We have no trace of Corinthian settlers at Xanthus. It seems modelled on the Attic and Corinthian myths.

page 178 note l This was probably to Xanthus, where there was an heroum to Sarpedon.

page 178 note m Vid. supra. These were a Scythic race.

page 178 note n Herodot. Clio, i. 28.

page 179 note o Herodot. Clio, i. 171. Cf. ibid. 80. Harpagus was present at the siege of Sardis.

page 179 note p ἅμα ἀγόμενος καὶωνέας καὶ Αἰολέας ibid.

page 179 note q Herod, i. 141.

page 179 note r Herod. Clio, i. 176.

page 179 note s Ibid. vii. 92.

page 179 note t Theopomp. lib. xii. in Photii Biblioth. Cod. clxxvi. The perfect Lycian coins reading ΠîΡΕΚΛΕ Πηρεκλε. . and the clipt ones with îΡΕΚΛΙ, îΡΕΚ . . ηκλε, ηρεκ, may be of this monarch, who must have reigned about 400 B.C.

page 180 note u Cramer (I. A.) Asia Minor, lib. ii. 173.

page 180 note x Arrian, Exp. Alex. lib. i. s. xxi. Appian. Bell. Civ. iv.

page 180 note y Arrian, lib. ii. c. xx.

page 180 note z Justin, lib. xiii. s. 4.

page 180 note a Λυκίους δὲ καὶ Παμɸυλίους πεντακοσίους, Πέρσας τε τοξότας. κ.τ.λ. AS no hoplitæ are mentioned, it is probable the Lycians and Pamphylians composed them. Diod. Sic. xix. c. 69.

page 180 note b Ξάνθον ɸρουρουμένην ὑπντίγονου κατὰ κράτος εἷλεν. Ibid. xx. c. 27.

page 180 note c Polyb.lib.

page 181 note c Appian.lib. viii. 634.

page 181 note d Under whom they enjoyed a certain share of liberty. Herodes Agrippa says,—Χωρὶς ὅπλῶν ɸορολογοῦνται. Joseph, ii. 16.

page 181 note e Paus. lib. vii.

page 181 note f Ibid. Panyasis says, Σιβρᾥ ἔν ἀργυρεῷ, “in the silvery Sibrus.”

page 181 note g Homer. Il. i. 174.

page 181 note h Stephanus Byzantinus in voce. Arne is a Greek name. One of the chief towns of Bœotia bore it. Another, in Thessaly and Chæronea, was anciently called by the same name. It might have been introduced with the Æolian migration. See Thirlwall, History of Greece, i. p. 254.

page 181 note i Cf. Cramer, Geogr. of Asia Minor, ii. 243.

page 181 note k Fragment. Histor. Græc. roy. 8vo. Par. 1841, p. 16.

page 182 note l I suspect the τρῖα μέλεα, “three limbs,” of this, was allusive to the name Tramilæ.

page 182 note m These coins attest an early and secondary league; they are parallel in a numismatic sense to the Bœotian, the Achæan, and the Corinthian league.

page 182 note n Herodot. ii. 173.

page 182 note o De Politiis. Lycii (Περὶ Πολίτειων Λυκίων.)

page 182 note p Heraclid. loc. cit.

page 182 note q Herodot. vii. 93.

page 182 note r As in Pandarus, this they probably derived from the Cretans.

page 182 note s Strabo particularly mentions the language of the Solymi, as one of the four which, with Lydian, Pisidian, and Greek, divided Asia Minor, and was spoken at Cibyra.

page 183 note t They came originally from Persia, καὶ ἐντεῦθεν εἰς τοὺς ἔξω τόπους διεδόθησαν ῶς αλεκτρύονες ἐν τῇ Πέρσιδι. Athenæus, Deipnosophist. Ed. Casaub.

page 183 note u Cf. Texier, Voy. en Asie Mineure, pl. 112.

page 183 note v These are not so decidedly Persian as the remains at Pterium. Cf. Texier, loc. cit. pl. 79.

page 184 note w See Sir R. Ker Porter's Travels in Persia, vol. I. pl. xxxiv. et seq.

page 184 note x Cf. Sir R. Ker Potter's Travels in Persia, vol. I. pl. xxxiv. et seq.

page 184 note y Lib. viii. cap, iii.

page 185 note z These were apparently intended to be converted into lions' head's spouts, resembling those on the roofs of temples, for carrying off the water. A similar set are on the Horse tomb.

page 186 note a M. Raoul Rochette supposes it may have been surmounted by a truncated pyramid on a base of three steps. Journal des Savans, Juillet, 1842, p. 391.

page 186 note b Cf. Photius, Bibliotheca, sc.xciv.τῆς στήλης τοῦ λέοντος ὑποδηλούμενον τῷ ἐπιγράμματι. κ.τ.λ.

page 186 note c This had been inhabited by a Christian devotee. The interior has some crosses, and a scroll or book (?) much effaced, on which is ΜΕ(γας) θεος.? Cf. Fellows, the Xanthian Marbles. 8vo. 1842. p. 22.

page 187 note d Odys. xx. l. I. 241.

page 187 note e Schol. ad. I.

page 187 note f This painter, however, is supposed by Pausanias to have forged the names he wished on paintings. Cf. Phocic.

page 187 note g One of the Hyadæ bore this name, and was the mother of Lycus by Neptune. Schol. Horn. Il. ε. 486.

page 187 note h Mythologia, 8vo. Gen. 1651. p. 721. Cf. Odyss. XX. 1. 66. κούρας ἀνέλοντο θύελλαιρπυιαι ἀνηρείψαντο.

page 188 note i M. Raoul Rochette, Journal des Savans, Juillet, 1842, sees an oriental, or Asiatic treatment,—the Harpies on the vase published by M. Millingen, pl. xv. p. 47, being winged females; but in MS. of Vatican as above. So also Virgil, Æneid. iii.

page 188 note k Odyss. XX. 66. Cf. Hesychius voce cit. αἱ τῶν Ανεμῶν συστροɸαὶ θύελλαι.

page 188 note l One of the Hyadas who bore this name was the mother of Glaucus by Sisyphus. Schol. Hom. Il. ε. 486.

page 188 note m Aedon was the Pamphylian name of Minerva. Cf. Hesychius voce Ἁήδων ἡθηναία παρὰ τοῖς Παμɸυλίοις.

page 188 note n Or κορύκορος. Cf. Sophocl. Antigone, l. 117. Χύν θ᾽ ἱπποκόμοις κορύθεσσι.

page 189 note o Cf. Eratosthenes, Ἄρκτος ἡ μίκρα. Phœnice, according to some, was seduced by Jupiter, and turned into a bear, and made the Ursa major. Aglaosthenes makes Cynosura one of the Idæan nymphs, nurse of Jove, from whom Philostratus named the harbour of Histo.

page 189 note p The difficulty of defining a subject so general as an elderly man delivering or receiving a helmet from a warrior, suggests the possibility of its being intended for Iobates the king of the Solymi giving Bellerophon instructions to destroy the Chimæra. The bear would appear under the throne of the king in the same manner as the lion does under that of Agamemnon on certain monuments. As the destruction of the Chimæra was the first of the three labours, it is probable that this is the one intended; and, although at a later period Bellerophon was provided with the winged Pegasus and winged petasus of Mercury, or helmet of Hades, in the earlier works of art he appears as a mere warrior. (Cf. Millingen, Anc. Un. Mon. bas-reliefs, pl. iii.)

page 190 note q For Juno holding the patera or phialé, cf. Visconti, Mus. P. Clementino.

page 190 note r Cf. Palæphat. de Incredilib. 43, 51, ἄμαξα βοῶν τὸ χρῶμα λευκῶν Cadmus founded Thebes where a cow lay down. Apollod. iii. 4.

page 190 note s This does not necessarily imply Juno; the chair of Jupiter is found thus. Cf. De Witte, Vases Magnoncourt, No. I.

page 190 note t Cf. Canino Vase, No. 4. De Witte, Descr. d'une Coll. d. Vases peints, 8vo. Par. April, 1837; where two of the Charites hold flowers, the third not.

page 190 note u Pausan. Bœot.

page 190 note v Hymn iii. l. 58–67.

page 190 note x Paus. Ibid.

page 190 note y For an archaic statue of this goddess holding a dove, cf. Clarac, Mus. du Sculpture, pl. 626 A., No. 1290 B.; perhaps Aphrodite-Koré, cf. Ibid. 632 c, 1422 I.; cf. pl. 762 A., where a youthful figure holding a bird is at the side of another reclining figure holding poppies.

page 191 note z Cf. Lenormant, Ch. Elite d. Mon. Cer. pl. xviii. for Jupiter and Ganymede, holding a wheel, or hoop, and a cock.

page 191 note a According to Xanthus, the Lydian historian, as cited by Parthenius in his Erotica, c. 33, she was the daughter of Assaon, and wife of Philottus.

page 192 note b See former part of my paper, Herodot. Loc. cit.

page 193 note y For their general position Cf. Fellows's Xanthian Marbles, 8vo. Lond. 1842, Map of Xanthus.

page 193 note z Vid. Ross, Wiederaufrichtung des Tempels der Niké Apteros. Cf. also Parthenon Frieze—that of Phigalia—and the remains of the Theseum.

page 194 note a This resembles the dress of the Persians on the Niké Apteros—they have there, however, the γέῤῥα, or lunated buckler.

page 194 note b A group nearly the same occurs ibid.

page 194 note c This resembles many of the contests in the Iliad, as that of Achilles and Memnon, Ajax and Hector. Cf. Ægina pediment and Vases passim.

page 194 note d Mus. Borbon. vol. VIII. pl. 34.

page 195 note e Ross, loc. cit. Mus. Marbles, Part ix. pl. viij.

page 195 note f On early vases the Amazons are armed exactly as Greek warriors, distinguished only by the white colour of their flesh. On later monuments they have not always the Pelta. Cf. Mus. Borbon. iv. pl. 21. On horseback, as here, Clarac, Mus. de Sculpt. No. 810.

page 195 note g For these subjects, Cf. Iliad, loc. cit. and Schol. ad eund. Latini, Mythogr. Tres. II. 131, give Abas.… qui et Iobates dicitur. Interfecta autem a Bellerophonte, iterum ad vincendos Calydonas missus est. Apollod. Biblioth. II. c. 3.

page 195 note h Cf. Inghirami, Vasi fittili, tom. I. Tav. 3.

page 195 note i For example, the Centauromachia, Argonautica, Theseid, and Cadmeian myth, as found on vases.

page 195 note k Cf. Caballis, name of the region of the Solymi, Cram. Geog. As. Min. loc. cit.

page 196 note l The Latini, Mythogr. Tres. ii. 131, call Bellerophon “qui et Perseus.” This is incorrect. This myth resembles that of the Attic Theseus, who destroys the Amazons, Centaurs, and Pallantids.

page 196 note m Under whom the country was till the age of Alexander.

page 196 note n Compare the Theseum and Niké Apteros temples, founded in the middle of the fifth century B.C.

page 196 note o Already detailed in the Prolegomena. Cf. Fellows, Xanthian Marbles, p. 39.

page 197 note p This armour is an alliance of Greek and Persian.

page 197 note q Thus the Persian monarch on the staircase of Persepolis. Ker Porter, Travels, loc. cit. Cleopatra in the painting at Pompeii, Mus. Borbon, tom. ix. 4. Of the Royal state of Alexander, when he imitated the Persian manners, Phylarchus in Athenæo, xii. 55, p. 539: Κατὰ δὲ μέσην τὴν σκηνὴν χρυσοῦς ἐτίθετο δίɸρος, ἐɸ᾽ οὗ καθήμενος ἐχρημάτισεν ὁλέξανδρος, τῶν σωματοɸυλάκων πανταχόθεν ἐɸεστηκότων.

page 197 note r These represent the two classes, Ionians or Æolians.

page 197 note s Herod, vii. 93, 97, merely states that the Æolians were armed like the Greeks, and so the Ionians; the coins of these people give their armour like the last described.

page 197 note t This figure much resembles Harpagus, and, if it does not belong to this side, might represent him at the moment of attack.

page 198 note u This drapery appears often on the fictile vases of Millingen, Vases Peints. It is not mentioned by ancient authors.

page 199 note x The heads of these figures are mutilated, and their caps or helmets consequently indistinct, which would have decided their nation. Cf. Herod, loc. cit. vii. 61, ὕπο δὲ ɸαρετρεῶνες ἐκρέμαντο

page 200 note y See Mosaic of Pompeii, Mus. Borbon. viii. pl. 34. Cf. Suidas, voce τιάρα The cidaris or pilos of Darius is erect, while all the others are flat.

page 201 note y Photii Bibliothec.

page 201 note a We have no known instance in Greek art of Persians armed like Greeks. On the Niké Apteros frieze and Pompeian Mosaic, they wear a tunic, chlamys, anaxyrides, pilei, and torques. Cf. Mus. Borb. vol. VIII.

page 201 note b Herodotus, i. 141, 2, ibid. 146.

page 201 note c This kind of drapery, which recalls the Coia vestis, may be seen on the supposed Helen, Mus. Borbon. vol. VIII. pl. 5.

page 201 note d Mus. Borbon. viii. 32–40.

page 201 note e Lib. v. c. ii. p. 130.

page 201 note f Texier, Asie Mineure, pl. 27.

page 202 note f Similar figures, supposed to be Proserpine, are found in bas-relief on the rocks near Acræ, in Sicily. See Il Duca di Serradifalco, Antichita della Sicilia, fo. Palermo, 1840, p. 25.

page 202 note i As on the friezes of the Theseum and Parthenon.