TRY'SA (Lat., from Gk. Tadao, now called Geul-Bushi). An ancient town, situated on a plateau (2475 feet high) in Southern Lyeia, a short distance west of Myra. The site is of interest only from the Heroiin erected near the end of the fifth century B.C. by a native prince. This is a quadrangular inclosure about 150 X 75 feet, with a door in the south wall. In the northeast corner stood the large sarcophagus, and in the southeast the small booths for the guard and the funeral feasts. The importance of the monument is in its sculptured decorations. Around the inner wall near the top are two rows of sculptured frieze, and a similar decoration adorns the outside of the south wall. Only the sculptures around the door show any trace of Oriental influence; the rest are evidently derived from good Greek models. On the outside are represented the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, a battle between Greeks and Trojans on the right of the door, and on the left battles of the Greeks with Amazons and centaurs. In side on the south wall on the right are Odysseus slaying the suitors and the Calydonian Hunt, on the left a banquet and dance of youths and maidens. On the east wall, which is much muti
lated, can be traced the deeds of Theseus, a battle with centaurs, and a banquet. The north wall contains the Dioseuri carrying away the daughters of Bencipims, a hunting scene, and the conflict of the LapitIne and centaurs. The west wall contains the battle of Greeks and Trojans between the city and the ships, apparently the storming of the city of Troy. and the battle of Achilles with the Amazon. Apparently the artist was influenced by the great painters of the fifth century, and for this reason the frieze possesses a unique importance. Its total length is nearly 350 feet, and the height varies between three and four feet. First mentioned in 1841 by Schanborn, the ruins were excavated between 1881 and 1883 by an Austrian expedition, and the sculptures brought to Vienna. Consult Benndorf and Nie mann. Des Hecoiin con Gjolbaschi-Trysa, with Atlas (Vienna, 1889).