Book Review of Architecture Romaine d'Asie Mineur: Les monuments de Xanthos et Leur ornementation, by Laurence Cavalier

Abstract

Courtyards and gardens of archaeological museums and excavation houses all over the Mediterranean are repositories of architectural fragments—column capitals, pieces of entablature, statue bases—that are often picturesquely arranged in Piranesi-like assemblages and used as benches under trees and porticoes. The fragments are sometimes casual, unprovenanced finds brought in for safekeeping, or pieces reused in buildings quarried from earlier ones, or else pieces from known buildings that have lost their place.