SCULPTURED TOMBS
OF HELLAS
BY
PERCY GARDNER, Litt.D.
LINCOLN AND MERTON PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
WITH THIRTY PLATES, AND EIGHTY-SEVEN ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
1896
[All rights reserved]
OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
Few griefs and many joys my life has held,
Out-lengthened to the utmost bounds of eld.
My name is Symmachus, in Chios born,
Which rich with grapes the branching vines adorn;
But when I died, my bones were hidden here,
In Attic land, to gods and men most dear.
Athenian Epitaph.