Tags: Monument.
The Tomb of Payava is a Lycian tall rectangular free-standing barrel-vaulted stone sarcophagus built for Payava who was probably the ruler of Xanthos Lycia (now Günük Turkey) in around 360 BC. The tomb was discovered in 1838 and brought to England in 1844 by the explorer Sir Charles Fellows. He described it as a ‘Gothic-formed Horse Tomb’.Payava who is named in the inscriptions is only known from this tomb.
