A sarcophagus, called the tomb of mourning women. On all sides of it alike are ranged a series of beautiful female figures, separated by ionic pillars, each in a somewhat different attitude, though all attitudes denoting grief. The pediments at the ends of the cover are also closely connected with the mourning for the loss of a friend and protector, which is the theme of the whole decoration of the sarcophagus. We see depicted in them the telling of the news of the death, with the results in the mournful attitude of the two seated figures. The mourning women must be taken, not as the representation of any persons in particular, but generally as the expression of the feeling of a city. Date: between circa 400 and circa 300 B.C..
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