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250 HISTORY OF ART IN* PIKI.NICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. tin- frankness of the Greek ; the marble tells us the names of the. dead, of his father and of his country, sometimes his quality or profession, as in the epitaph which reads : " 1 am Ascpta, daughter of Ksmounchillem, and a Sidonian. This monument was raised to me by latanbel, son of Ksmoun- silleh, hi<jh priest of the ^od Nergal."
