 Several of these prayer sheets have been found in positions that indicate placement in or on the deceased's mouth.A functional equivalence with the Charon's piece is further suggested by the evidence of flattened coins used as mouth coverings ("epistomia") from graves in Crete.A gold phylactery with a damaged inscription invoking the syncretic god Sarapis was found within the skull in a burial from the late 1st century AD in southern Rome.