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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt:... A SEPULCHRAL INSCRIPTION FROM ATHENS. On the 4th of last January a dealer in antiquities in Athens brought me a fragment of Pentelic marble bearing a metrical sepulchral inscription. He said that it was found near the Hagia Trias church, i. e., in the Ceramicus. The stone is smooth on the face and on the sides, rough on the back and broken off in an irregular horizontal line on the top and bottom. The top fracture runs through the middle of the first line, leaving, however, a part of every letter, so that it is quite legible. Four letters in the other lines are slightly defaced, but not erased. The bottom fracture runs about.015 m. below the last line of the inscription. The stone is, in general,.06 m. thick,.15 m. high. At the bottom the width is.246 m., at the top 242; the width is the width originally given by the stone-dresser. It will be noticed that it tapers toward the top. There are no traces of color. I bought the stone, after convincing myself of its indubitable genuineness. I gave it lately to the National Museum at Athens. This copy of the inscription is made directly from the stone, being traced through a paper impression and compared afterward with the original. In minuscules, in later spelling, and arranged with regard to its metrical form, it is as follows: llitrrj? jjSeia? re XP1 v foTrTOs eraipa EvduWa (TTrfKrjv Tt/vs' e iredrjice rdrp aw Blott ftvrift.rjv yap ael haicpvrbv eyovaa rjXiKia1; T»)? rrj; «cu « a,Tro(p8ip.evT); "Because of faithful and sweet friendship, thy companion Euthylla. has placed this stone upon thy grave, Biote; for thy memory she forever cherislies with tears as she laments for thy perished youth.' The inscription probably belongs to the early part of the fourth century D. C. It has been compared...