conceptEpitaphWordsWords for a tomb or memorial. Not epigraph as a book’s lead quote, and not elegy as the mourning poem.Hellenic religionEpitaph appears in Hellenic religion.Pausanias records epitaph inscriptions among the monuments he walks. A named epitaph speech in that periegesis, not epigraph as a general citation and not a tomb landform dump.from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesDescription of Greece · PausaniasPausanias, Description of Greece.