[Illustration: FIG. 264.--TOMBSTONE OF AURELIUS HERMIA AND HIS WIFE (NO. 687). Width 3 ft. 5 in.] Another noteworthy monument is (No. =687=) an inscribed relief of the first century B.C., belonging to Aurelius Hermia, a butcher from the Viminal hill, and his wife Aurelia Philematio(n), who are seen clasping hands (fig. 264). The husband praises the virtues of his wife, and the wife those of her husband, her fellow-freedman, who had been more than a father to her. Other interesting inscriptions from tombstones are No. =688=, on a hunting dog named Margarita, a great favourite with her master and mistress, who died in giving birth to puppies, and No. =689=, which sheds light on the memorial ceremonies after burial. A testator here leaves seven twenty-fourths of the rent accruing from a block of flats to his freedmen and freedwomen, on condition that they celebrate his memory four times in a year--on his birthday, the Day of Roses, the Day of Violets, and the feast of the Parentalia, the last the Roman All Souls' Day, held publicly in February, but privately on the anniversary of the day of death. A lighted lamp, with incense, was to be placed on the tomb on the Kalends, Nones, and Ides, the three dividing days of each month. The funeral wreaths from Hawara (Cases 57, 58; No. =666=, see p. 219) are an instance of offerings at tombs belonging to the Roman period. They have been so thoroughly preserved in the dry climate of Egypt that the different varieties of flowers can still be distinguished. (=668=) Cf. Murray and Smith, _White Athenian Vases in the B.M._; (=669=) _B.M. Inscr._ 971; (=670=) _ibid._, 102; (=671=) _Cat. of Terracottas_, C 12 and 13; (=672=) _Cat. of Sculpt._, II., 1277; (=674=) _ibid._, III., 2400; (=675=) Cf. Walters, _Hist. of Anc. Pottery_, II., p 288; (=678=) _ibid._ II., p. 304 ff; (=679=) Benndorf, _Ant. Gesichtshelme_, p. 42, pl. xi; (=681=) _Cat. of Terracottas_, B 629; (=682=) _Cat. of Sculpt._, III., 2359; (683) _ibid._, 2402; (=684=) and (=685=) _ibid._, 2420 and 2425; (=686=) Dessau, _Inscrr. Lat. Selectae_, 7892 a; (=687=) _Cat. of Sculpt._, III., 2274; (=688=) _C.I.L._ VI., 29,896; (=689=) _C.I.L._ VI., 10,248. On Greek tombstones, see Conze, _Attische Grabreliefs_; P. Gardner, _Sculptured tombs of Hellas_. On Roman monuments, Altmann, _Röm. Grabaltäre_. [Footnote 105: Aristoph., _Ekkl._ 996: [Greek: hos tois nekroisi zôgraphei tas lêkythous]. ] [Footnote 106: [Greek: enthade moiran echôn Halikarnêsseus Idagygos keitai, Aristokleos pais, Areos therapôn.] ] INDEX. _The numbers refer to the pages of the Guide._ ACROBATS, 218 ACTORS, 31 AEGINETAN WEIGHT-SYSTEM, 159 ALTARS, 39 ALTAR-URNS, 223 AMPHORAE, on weights, 159; for wine, 177 ANATOMICAL MODEL, 47, 187 ANKLE-PIECES, 89 APHRODITE, dedication to, 45; in shrine, 43 APIS-BULL, 50 ARITHMETIC, 198