CHAP. XVI. SUBJECTS PAINTED IN TOMBS. 395 



of burying different objects with the dead, which 

 had belonged to them during Hfe ; as arms with 

 the soldier, and the various implements of their 

 peculiar trade with the bodies of artisans. Thus 

 ^neas selected suitable objects for the sepulchre 

 of Misenus.* But another reason also suggests 

 itself for this custom — the supposed return of the 

 soul to the same body after the lapse of a certain 

 period of years, which I shall have occasion to 

 notice in treating of transmigration. t 



In some instances all the paintings of the tomb 

 were finished, and even the small figures repre- 

 senting the future occupant were introduced, 

 those only being left unsculptured which being 

 of a large size required more accuracy in the 

 features in order to give his real portrait ; and 

 sometimes even the large figures were completed 

 before the tomb was sold, the only parts left un- 

 finished being the hieroglyphic legends containing 

 his name and that of his wife. Indeed the fact 

 of their selling old mummy cases, and tombs 

 belonging to other persons, shows that they were 

 not always over scrupulous about the likeness 

 of an individual, provided the hieroglyphics were 

 altered and contained his real name: at least when 

 a motive of economy reconciled the mind of a 

 purchaser to a second-hand tenement for the body 

 of his friend. 



* Virg. Mn. vi. 232. : — 



" At pius^neas ingenti mole sepulcrum 



Iraponit, siiaquc anna viro, reinunique, lul)aii)(juc.'' 

 t Vide infra, p. 4'40. 



