Finally, there is a type of monument, which contains the representation of some animal more or less associated with the grave, such as the cock (Conze, No. 22, pl. 13) or the Sphinx (Conze, No. 16, pl. 10, fig. 1_b_). The foregoing are the main types of the early Attic reliefs. The British Museum does not contain any specimens of the early period, but the study of the early reliefs enables us to classify the later works, and to distinguish the indigenous Attic types from those that are imported, or of later development. _Decorative Stelae._--The stelae crowned with the palmette and acanthus acroteria are described below, Nos. 599-618. They are principally derived from Athens, but several specimens (Nos. 611-618) roughly worked in coarse limestone are a part of the collection of sculptures from Kertch. One of the best examples of Attic work of this class in the British Museum, will be found in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, namely the stelè of Artemidoros with a bilingual Greek and Phoenician inscription. (Dodwell, _Tour_ i., p. 411; _Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus._, cix.) _Scenes from Daily Life and figures of Animals._--The monuments with portraits and scenes from daily life are catalogued below, Nos. 619-679. The incidents chosen are taken from all parts of life, and in late times are apt to be of a _genre_ character with scenes from children's games, &c. Reliefs with figures of horsemen, where the scene appears only to be an incident from daily life, and not connected with the heroification of the deceased, have also been placed here (Nos. 638, 661-666). Examples of the figure of an animal placed on the tomb, of a symbolic or decorative character, are best seen among the archaic sculptures (compare those from Xanthos), but the bull, No. 680, is a specimen of a figure from an Attic stelè. The types which have been described so far, are simple records of the deceased person. We turn now to various classes, which are not represented among the Attic remains of the archaic period, and which are more or less of religious or ritualist significance. _Vases._--The Sepulchral Vases, which are represented either in relief or in the round, are a common form of monument at Athens, and are connected with the observances paid to the dead. These vases which are sometimes lekythi, and sometimes amphorae or hydriae, may be decorated with patterns, or with subjects in relief, such as appear on other sepulchral stelae. They probably are to be traced from the vessels of pottery in which offerings were brought, to be poured out as libations on the tomb. Compare below the account of the "Sepulchral Banquet."