Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 127
gave access by a side door to a small chamber excavated in the solidrock; this was probably the burial place. At a later period, a TOMBS. 105 simple cippus or truncated column, surrounded by trees, arose overthe corpse, and an inscription gave the name and titles of thedeceased. Those of private… … were in the form of altars, but the inscription and emblems on themprevent them from being confounded. Sometimes the stone tabletswere surmounted with an oval heading called iirifrqfia. These tombswere most frequently built by the side of roads, and near the gatesof the city commemorative monuments…
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