Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (6.1890-1897 (1897))

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GRAVE-MONUMENTS FROM ATHENS.

brick, and a single slab of marble formed the partition between it
and the companion tomb. A little west of A was found a sarco-
phagus of Pentelic marble. The only decoration on the bod}7 of
the sarcophagus was a simple moulding on the front and ends;
the lid was roof-shaped, the gable as shown in Fig. 2, the roof
proper covered with the scale-like tile pattern illustrated in 'E<£.
'Apx-, 1890, Hiv. 9, a sarcophagus from Patras, No. 1186 in

Kephissia Street.
Fig. 1.—Plan of Mr. Merlin's House.

the National Museum. (It is worth noting that this No. 1186
has on the back essentially the same design as the gable here
illustrated; and that the same roof-pattern appears on two or three
of the sarcophagi from Sidon, now in the New Museum in Con-
stantinople, as well as on several other sarcophagi in the National
Museum in Athens.) The top had been broken open, but the
despoilers had overlooked a plain gold ring which was still with-
in the sarcophagus. Near C was a large cipjms of Ilymettus
marble, inclined perhaps 40 degrees from the vertical, in such
a way that the top, with the inscription, had to be broken to