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on festive occasions in classical antiquity, and there are plenty of inscriptions recording the vote of a golden wreath to this or that public benefactor. Here we seem to have a pair that match, attached to a man and woman who were contemporaries; and we may perhaps compare the usage in modern Greek weddings. The use of a bier has been suggested in the case of the last burial in Tomb 1. Iron coffin(?) nails with traces of wood adhering to them were found in both tombs but nothing definite has been made of their position as found. Only two lamps were found inside the tombs: Tomb 1, 8 and 73. The original position of #73 is uncertain; 8 was beside the last burial.
(Here is to follow a comment on the various classes of finds, and finally a catalogue or list thereof. Owing to limited time, this is to be compiled later; from the typed lists, and copies of catalogue cards, and photographs.)
1 from p.12 The lozenge-shaped pieces of gold foil are not perforated. Presumably they were fastened with glue, perhaps to actual myrtle wreaths.
1 Tomb 9, 15,17,19; Tomb 1, 34-36; 56-58, 60, 66.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain