Visitors looking at the Nereid Monument in the British Museum

Date:
1969 - 1985
Location:
British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London Authority, Wc1
Reference:
LRM01/01/036
Type:
Photograph (Print)
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Description

The tomb was probably built in around 390 BC for Arbinas (Erbina), who ruled western Lycia, now part of Turkey. It was rediscovered in the early 1840s and the ruins were moved to the British Museum where it was partially reconstructed.

Content

This is part of the Series: LRM01/01 Series Of Black And White Photographs; within the Collection: LRM01 Leonard Robin Mattock Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Mattock, Leonard Robin

Keywords

Victorian Museum, Early Iron Age Tomb, Exhibition