The Heroon of Trysa is the modern name for an ancient tomb, built around in

Trysa Trysa or Tryssa was a town of ancient Lycia, located between Cyaneae and Myra. It has been archaeologically examined, and among the finds are Lycian tombs, most notably the Heroon of Trysa. Greek inscriptions which were found there show that ther ...

, in

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in southwest

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. It was discovered in 1841 by the gymnasium teacher Julius August Schönborn during his field research in Lycia. The figural frieze originally consisted of plates, which decorated the square outer wall of the tomb. They are currently in the

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal do ...

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, where they were brought in 1882 after excavations by

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and

Felix von Luschan Felix Ritter von Luschan (11 August 1854 – 7 February 1924) was an Austrian doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer. Life Luschan was born the son of a lawyer in Hollabrunn, Lower Austria, and attended the Akademisches ...

, with the permission of the Turkish authorities. The Kunsthistorisches Museum carried out a research project on the plates which resulted in 2015 in a published catalogue with a detailed description of each of the plates, including measurements, conservation status, and stylistic analysis of the figures, illustrated with photographs of the restored plaques.

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, ''Das Heroon von Trysa – Ein lykisches Fürstengrab des 4.Jh.n.Chr.'';

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, ''Das Heroon von Trysa : Ein Denkmal in Lykien zwischen Ost und West : Untersuchungen zu Bildschmuck, Bauform und Grabinhaber'', Vienna : Holzhausen, 2015

External links

Information on the Heroon of Trysa on the website of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Article on the discovery and removal of the Heroon of Trysa at the World History Encyclopedia website
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