Abstract
Mythological beasts, the sphinx chiefly, belong in a wider study of classical grave monuments, but it can be noted that among the Attic animals of the fourth century there is at least one griffin, poised nowadays on top of a Roman rectangular tomb in the little park behind the Hephaisteion. The creature is, unfortunately, headless and thus cannot be associated to a satisfying degree of precision with any cousins that are birds in the Mycenaean period (Lefkandi), self-contained quadrupeds in archaic times (Olympia bronzes, Burdur plaques), and felines in the Hellenistic age (Belevi, Tarentine gilded terracottas). The mourning Siren atop marble shafts falls outside this study.*
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