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—XANTHOS. 4574. Bird standing on a plinth with wings closed. Headbroken off; tail long and spreading.Height, 3J inches.75. The Egyptian ram-headed deity, Knef, seated in achair. He wears a long chiton bound with a girdle, oneach side of which a lappet falls as far as the knees ; athick mass of hair falls from behind each horn on to thebreast. Lindos, in Rhodes.Limestone ;height, 4 inches.SCULPTURES PROM XANTHOS.The following sculptures, Nos. 80-97, are the archaicportion of the collection of sculptures from Xanthos, atown some ten miles from the sea, in the south-west ofLycia. The people of Lycia weie a non-Hellenic race,but the sculptures of Xanthos are distinctly Greek, thoughnot without traces of oriental influence (cf. No. 86). Inthe most important remains, especially in the HarpyTomb (No. 94) we find the characteristics of the IonianSchool of Asia Minor.The sculi)tures of Xanthos were discovered by Mr. (afterwards Sir)Charles Fellows in April, 1836. (Fellows, A Journal writtenduring an excursion in Asia Minor, 1838.) The discovererrevisited Xanthos in 1840, made a more minute examination ofthe remains, and published a further account. {An Account ofDiscoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a second excursionin Asia Minor, 1840-1841, quoted as ''Lycia."') In consequenceof this work, a naval expedition, assisted by Fellows,was employed in Jan., Feb., 1842, to ship the Marbles of Xanthosfor transport to England. (Fellows, The Xanthian Marbles ; theiracquisition, and transmission to England, 1843. This was reprintedby Fellows in Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, moreparticularly in the Province of Lycia, 1852, pp. 423-456.)Additionalsculptures and casts from Lycia were obtained by a secondexpedition iu 1843. {_Athenmum, 1844, pp. 176, 339, 715, 779.)