Cast Gallery catalogue number: A120b

The defenders of a besieged city stand on the walls throwing rocks onto their attackers below.
See A120f for attackers.

• Plaster cast: Height: 62cm, Width: 1.19m.
• Copy of part of a limestone frieze.
• The frieze:
  • is from the interior of the west wall of the Heroon at Trysa (in Lycia).
  • was made about 390-380 BC.
  • was taken to Vienna in 1883.
  • is now in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.