Nereid Monument, early 4th century BC.

The Nereid Monument – discovered by Charles Fellows in the 19th century – was constructed in the early 4th century for the Lycian king Erbinna; its famous east façade now occupies Room 17 at the British Museum. For a model reconstruction of the monument, one might see Pryce’s article, offering a greater sense of the scale and overall impression of the monument than one might acquire from the British Museum reconstruction alone (F. N. Pryce, ‘The Nereid Monument’ British Museum Quarterly 3.4 (1929) 95-96.). New fragments are still occasionally being found.
 
This is an excellent example of cultural hybridity, with the monument constructed to resemble an Ionic temple and containing plenty of what one might term “local” decorative elements. For comparative material, see the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (for the tomb) and the Nike of Samothrace (for the sculptural style). Though the podium and facade of the monument were planned according to Greek methods, the character of the podium tomb is more clearly Anatolian. Any discussion of the cultural influences behind the monument should heed the warnings of Robinson in a useful discussion of Erbinna and the monument (T. Robinson, ‘Erbinna, the ‘Nereid Monument’ and Xanthus’ in G. R. Tsetskhladze ed. Ancient Greeks West and East (1999) 361-378).