1 Fillet or scarf/belt used to symbolise eternal union between the living and the living and the dead (Ephesus)
2 Bucrania (bull and ram's skulls) and floral, fruit and vegetal swag
3 Winged victory offering a strigil to an old man, (the strigil was used to scrape the body clean after first coating it in oil, in this context it became a symbol of purity and is often found on the sides of strigil sarcophagi)
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5 Palmette motif representing the rising sun painted on an ostrich egg, several such examples have been found in tombs and sarcophagi
6 Pomegranates placed on top of a pediment to symbolise resurrection after marriage with death (Hades), stele (funerary stone), British Museum, London
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