A DISSERTATION
BY
FRANK PIERREPONT GRAVES,
COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
BROOKLYN.
May 1891.
The author of this thesis does not lay claim to profound scholarshipor extended research. It may contain errors that are perceptibleto a careful student of Greek archaeology, even without subjecting thepaper to a minute scrutiny. The material has been found scatteredthrough the writings of ancient and modern authors and in the recordsof many excavations and the treasures of many museums. In theprocess of gathering from so extended a field, it is but natural thatmistakes should have crept into the work. The effort has been madeto exclude as many errors as possible and to weed out those that couldbe discovered with as great diligence as the inexperience of the authorpermitted. The labor of compilation has been undergone in the hopethat a connected account of these ancient burial customs might breedan interest in the subject and prove an incentive to a more extendedexamination by some whose curiosity might not be strong enough orwhose leisure time might not be sufficient to gather what was so widelyseparated.
Besides the writers of ancient Greece, the following authoritieshave been consulted in the preparation of this dissertation:
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DODWELL, Edward, Classical and Topographical Tour throughGreece, London, 1819.
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