342 ATHENS. 
CHAP, best age of sculpture. Within the circle at the 
i - T -_* bottom of the lamp was this inscription : 
Curious 
Insertion ZHKPAT 
2T H Z E X E 
Lamp. Z ft O N 
SOCRATES ACCEPT THIS . ANIMAL 
It seems therefore to have been originally one 
of those offerings called vegrtgw ayaX^ara by 
Euripides 1 , the imagines, or, as usually trans- 
lated, grata munera, which the friends of a 
deceased person were wont to carry after the 
corpse during the funeral procession: and per- 
haps it was deposited in the grave of the most 
celebrated philosopher of the antient world. 
During the first days of November we con- 
tinued our researches with the utmost diligence, 
both in making these excavations, and in endea- 
vouring to find Inscriptions which had escaped 
the notice of former travellers. Upon the third 
of this month we set out upon an excursion to 
(t) 
ifiowras, v'ongu 
Euripid. in Ale. v.612. p. 282. Cantab. 1694. 
