A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 232
making offerings at the tombstone. Theseofferings were made by the relatives from time to time, and consistedmainly of sashes, wreaths, and vases, as may be seen from the vasesplaced in the Case. The Greek funeral monuments of the bestperiod are characterised by their restrained beauty. Examples… … Fig. 257. Funeral Lekythos. Ht. 15| in. METHODS OF BURIAL. 221 are the archaic one of Idagygos of Halikarnassos (No. 669; fig. 258)found in Cyprus, inscribed with an elegiac couplet in which he iscalled the squire of Ares, 1 and a round stone (No. 670) with alate inscription showing that the tomb…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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