CANINE TOMBSTONES AND EPITAPHS FROM THE ROMAN WORLD
Historical references suggest that funerary monuments were being dedicated to dogs in Classical Greece, but the practice became more common in the Hellenistic period, and it continued to grow in popularity into the Roman period. Just like tombstones dedicated to humans, these memorials would have been placed in public contexts, in cemeteries and along roadsides, where passers-by would be invited to read the inscriptions and share in the act
