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 SARCOPHAGI AXD SEPULCHRAL 181 early, they seem to have preserved their vogue more or less down to the very last years of the antique civilization, so that they are, in themselves, insufficient to give a date to a sepulchre. But the case is different when ve encounter sarcophagi decorated vith FIG. 119. Two Giblite sarcophagi. From Renan. lions' heads or ox-skulls united by heavy garlands. 1 The execu- tion of these matters is heavy, belonging, in fact, to provincial Roman art. Another kind of coffin, dating from the same period 1 RKNAN, Mission, pp. 411 and 422, and plate xlv. fig. i ; plate Ix. Several of these are in the Louvre.