“Oh grief! how many tears have been shed upon this tomb Of Julia Lucina, who in life was very dear to her mother: Cut off in the flower of youth, she lies buried beneath this stone. Would that she could return! Were it only to know how great is my sorrow. She lived twenty years ten months and thirteen days. Julia Parthenope, her unhappy mother, raised this monument to her.” And this on the tomb of Concordius, a Christian priest of the fourth century: “Irreproachable and pious, pure in life and body, Concordius, here entombed, lived for eternity. In his youth he occupied the office of a deacon, He was afterwards chosen as a priest by the Divine Law. He had scarcely completed his fiftieth year when He was transported prematurely into the starry hall of the Almighty, Where his loving mother and brother aspire to find him.” The inscriptions on most of the tombs evince that the departed were held in tender regard by their bereft relatives and friends. Some of them are quite touching human documents, manifesting the deep attachment that parents had for their children. Many elaborately carved tombs, with short stumpy figures, lacking entirely any æsthetic beauty, but full of ingenuity to express symbolically the Christian story and traditions, have been found; and one of the latest additions to the Museum is an early Pagan tomb of great excellence of workmanship, evidently belonging to the first century of the Christian era. The figures carved round it have an entirely different character from those on the Christian tombs of a later date. This was found in La Camargue when the railway to Les Maries was in course of construction. The Alyscamps, the vast cemetery, where most of these tombs were found, lies to the south of the town on the farther side of the broad “Avenue Victor Hugo.” The antiquity of this burial-ground is indisputable. When it was consecrated for Christian burial by St. Trophimus may well be a matter for dispute, for it is a little uncertain who St. Trophimus really was. He is the apostle of Arles, and legend makes him one of the companions of St. Paul who accompanied him on his travels; but this claim was not put forward until the twelfth century, and after the time when the saint’s bones were transferred from the Alyscamps to the Church of St. Etienne, now famous as the Church of St. Trophimus. Whoever the St. Trophimus may have been, there is very little doubt that the Church of St. Honorat was built by St. Virgil, who probably utilised the site of an ancient Pagan or early Christian temple. [Illustration: TOMBS IN THE “ALYSCAMPS” AT ARLES]