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to other Purpofes, but chiefly the Service 

 of the Priefts in the Temples. 



Lacrymatories. 



Thefe were fmall Glafs or earthen Bot- 

 tles, chiefly in the Form of Phials. At 

 the Roman Funerals, the Friends of the 

 Deceafed, or the CPr^fica) Women hired 

 for that Purpofe, ufed to fill them with 

 their Tears, and depofite them very care- 

 fully with the Afhes, in Teftimony of 

 their fmcere Sorrow \ imagining the Manes 

 of the Departed were thereby greatly com- 

 forted. Many Specimens of them are 

 preferved in the Cabinets of the Curious, 

 and here in particular. 



What claim in the next Place our Re- 

 gard, are a Number of earthen fepulchral 

 Lamps of various Forms, ufually met with 

 in the old Monuments near the Urns, and 

 in the Catacombs at Rome^ in Nafles^ and 

 Sicily. 



Some have aflerted, that thefe Lamps 

 have been found burning after being 



buried 



