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 378 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. at the views of towns depicted on certain Lycian bas-reliefs ; notably in one of the pictures from Pinara, where funerary monu- ments of different types are mixed up with edifices comprised within the ramparts (Figs. 252, 253) ; as well as a representation of FIG. 269. View of a Lycian city. Monumenti dell" Institute, torn. x. Plate XVI. the same nature at Xanthus (Figs. 269, 270),* which forms part of the sculptures displayed on the building known as the monu- ment of the Nereids. The latter represented the military exploits FIG. 270. View of a Lycian tomb. Ibid. of a prince or satrap of the fourth century B.C., and the places he was supposed to have besieged or taken. Over the crenelated wall of one of them appears the upper part of a monument, with a 1 MICHAELIS, "Ilmonumento delle Nereidi," p. 117, in Annali delf Istituto di corrispondenza archeologica, 1875.