. The life of the Greeks and Romans. e crowned with anthemia, ornaments of flowers andleaves, either in relief or painted, sometimes also with pedi-ments adorned with rosettes; sometimes the stele shows ^representations, relating to the life of the deceased, in bas- |n§|relief. In the times of the Makedonians and Romans the 1 kstele becomes shorter and broader, with a pediment at thetop. Fig. 125 shows a stele, found at Athens, with apalmetto-ornament. Peculiar to Attica are the grave columns of blueHymettic marble, with inscriptions on them, round which ™were wound ribbons and wreaths in
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. e crowned with anthemia, ornaments of flowers andleaves, either in relief or painted, sometimes also with pedi-ments adorned with rosettes; sometimes the stele shows ^representations, relating to the life of the deceased, in bas- |n§|relief. In the times of the Makedonians and Romans the 1 kstele becomes shorter and broader, with a pediment at thetop. Fig. 125 shows a stele, found at Athens, with apalmetto-ornament. Peculiar to Attica are the grave columns of blueHymettic marble, with inscriptions on them, round which ™were wound ribbons and wreaths in memory of the 126 and 127, both taken from Athenian earthenvessels, illustrate these columns, one of them being flat atthe top, the other adorned with a capital of acanthus-leaves. Other stelai show the form of small chapel-like buildings (heroa), between the surrounding columns of^lg125which the forms of the dead are represented in relief. Fig. 128 showsa monument of this kind, found in a grave in the isle of Delos ;. Fig- 126. Fig-. 127. Fig. 128. Fig. 129, a similar one dug out at Athens, the bas-relief of whichshows the taking-leave of the deceased, called Phrasykleia, fromthe surrounding friends, a favourite subject during the best periodof Greek art. Portrait-statues, in full or half figure, were, duringthe Makedonian and Roman times, frequently placed on thegraves, or, if space permitted it, inside the heroa ; this was thecustom particularly in the islands. Fragments of such statues 96 SARCOPHAGI. from the graves of the , the ruling noble family ofAnaphe, have been found in that island; Rossconjectures that the roof-like covers of sarcophagifound in the isle of Hhenaea also used to carrystatues of this kind. Frequently detached coffins, or sarcophagi,wrought of stone, are found in the grave-chambers, in which the bodies were are numerous in Lykia, but in Greecethey have been found only in a few cases atPlatseae, and in the is
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