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Lucernls, amongft which he mentions one out of Baptifta Porta^ 

 called Lucerna Nefidea (from the Ifland where found in Craterc 

 Neopolitano fitaj which was included within a glafi, and placed 

 in a Marble Tomb, upon the fame account (I fuppofe) that in- 

 deed all others were ; both as a Symbol of the quality of the per- 

 fon there interr'd, and for the fake of the foul, which they thought 

 did not fo quite defert the body, but that it relied with it in the 

 grave x . 



60. But that ours was fuch a glafs including a lamp, I dare not 

 conclude, more than that it is barely poffible it might be fo, it 

 feeming much rather likely to have been zphiala Lachrymatoria, or 

 tear-bottle, wherein the furviving Friends of the deceafed, col- 

 lected thofe paffionate expreffions of their grief, andufually bu- 

 ryed with them, as is fomtimes fignified in old Infer iptions, by 

 fomefuch expreffion as, Cum lachrymis pofuere 1 ; only it is of a 

 much different figure from any of thofe defcribed in Job* Bapt. 

 Cafalim z , and Vaulws Aringhws a . 



6 1 . And therefore I rather believe it to have been one of thofe 

 veffels containing fome Aromatical liquor, fuch as they ufually in- 

 terred with the Vrns of Noble Families^, and perhaps a glafs of 

 the fame kind with thofe three found in a Roman Urn, preferved 

 by Cardinal Farnefe, and mentioned by Vigeneri c : Except we 

 fhall rather think it the veffel for the Aqua lufiralk fprinkled by 

 the Prieft on the Vrns, to expiate for the fmaller faults of the de - 

 ceafed d , which pofiibly they might after bury with them, which 

 waters were otherwife called arferidt aqu<, and by the Greeks, 

 ^wa Awfa, or &kb no7s vexfoTt <7GJBvi>$jo e ; But I rather incline 

 to the former of the two, becaufe there feems a kind of white fub- 

 Jiancc yet' remaining between the two aw* of the glafi (it being a 

 vefel of a peculiar make, one glafi as it were including another') 

 which poffibly might be the fediment of fomefuch Aromatical li- 

 quor when dryed away. 



62. Alfo in the Parifh ofWendlebury I faw a great fquareflone, 

 hollowed round in the middle, dug up in or near the old City of 

 Aldcefter, in which there wasfet a glafs bottle fitted to it, con- 

 taining nothing but fomwhatlike afhes, and cover'd over above 



* Bapt.Torta Magi* Nat. Lib-M.cap.ult. * Fortunii Liceti de recondith Antiauorum Lucerms,L'&1- 

 cap- 6, (]. T V'dJohan.Bapt.CaffaliumdeVr(>e,i^RitiiusRomanorum, cap. 21. * Ibidem. a fault 

 u4ringhi Roma fubterranea, lib. %. cap. 22. > Sir Thomas Brown's Hydriotapbia, cap.%. ' Ibidem cap.'z . 

 * Job Bapt. Caja/itts de Urbe & ritibut Romanorum, cap. 22. e Vtd.'job.Meur[iHmde}unere,cap.\\. 



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