X 
398 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP. Fausanias, was marked by a pillar, upon the 
right hand, at the distance of twenty stadia from 
Diuvi, going from the city towards the Pierian 
mountain'. There was upon the pillar {v^^ia, 
y.iSov) an araphora of stone ; and this vessel, 
according to a vulgar tradition of the inhabi- 
tants, was supposed to contain the bones of 
Orpheus. In this description, Fausanias has fur- 
nished us with all the apparatus of the oldest 
Pelasgic sepulchre: for the pillar (Kim), an- 
swering also to the stele of Homer, bespeaks the 
presence of a sepulchral mound, as its pedestal; 
and it is for this reason that we prefer trans- 
lating the word v'^^ioc by amphora, rather than 
by urna; because the former was used in 
Greece for sepulchral monuments, and was of itself 
considered as a symbol of death^. As to the 
belief entertained by the natives of its con- 
taining bones, it was consistent with the notions 
respecting funeral rites in the time of Fausanias* 
when it was more usual to burn than to bury the 
(1) MamiSiit; is ci •^ta^at rAv tivro o^ds t»j> Tliifiat £;^«vrS5 xa) vroXiP Aio\, 
<faaiv i^o Tuti yuvaixu* yiii<rSa.i rh* TiXivrh> ItrccuSx ru 'Oo(pi7. 'loTi it ix. 
Aiou rhv if) TO o^os, x,cu grccSia •jr^oiXn^uSori tlxofft, xicjv ri itrrtf i» ot^ia, xai 
i'Ti^nifid ta-» TM */»w, i/l^icc xl^eu. ixn 3f Toi errZ rou '0^(p'ius h id^icc, itctloi 
lil l^t^a^iai xiyouffi. Pausaniae Bceolica, c. 50. p. 769. ed. JTuJinn. 
(2) See rtgtietie to Chap. V. Vol. VI. of the Octavo Edition of 
these Travels; and p. 282 of the same, for observations on the Amphora, 
as a symlol of death. Also Reche.rches sur rOrigine et les Progres des 
Arts de la Crece, torn. I. Planche ix. tig. 4. « Londres, 1785. 
