Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 206
om the occupants of tomband sarcophagus.^* We shall find the same prophy-lactic character attaching to this image some eighthundred years later on the tomb of the Secundinii atIgel near Treves (p. 222). Whether we can followan earlier interpreter of this sarcophagus in seeing inthe Perseus a… … < ^ 0 I SYMBOLISM ON ROMAN TOMBSTONES 145 being of a superior order, which led soon to his Apothe-osis in the form of various heroes and gods. Thisis a further point which distinguishes the funeraryart of Asia Minor from that of Hellas. The celebrated sarcophagi from Clazomenae inLydia, which…
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