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Apotheosis and after life : three lectures on certain phases of art and religion in the Roman Empire (1915)

Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London : Constable · leaf 204

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spirits from 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… … 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 come well…

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