LR 179 Bas-relief Nereid h. cm. 105x150

LR 179 Bas-relief Nereid h. cm. 105x150

Our collection of bas-reliefs includes a reproduction of the sculpture relief depicting Nereid, kept at the British Museum, made of antique patinated white resin, suitable for indoor use and ready to be hung on a wall.

The bas-relief is part of the frieze of the main podium and depicts the death of a young warrior. The Nereid Monument is a carved tomb from Xanthos in Lycia, near present-day Fethiye in Mugla Province, Turkey. It was in the form of a Greek temple above a base decorated with carved friezes, and is thought to have been built in the early 4th century BC (as a tomb for Arbina, the Xanthian dynast who ruled western Lycia under the Achaemenid Empire. After the Byzantine era the monument fell into ruin. The remains were rediscovered by the British traveler Charles Fellows in the early 1840s and were shipped to the British Museum, where some of them have been reconstructed to show what the east facade of the monument would have looked like.