An example is the tomb slab of Johannes Gmainer (died 1482), a mayor in Lower Bavaria, shown as "an almost skeletonized cadaver, violently attacked by verminŠand addressing the beholder as follows:
'Sum
speculum vitae, Johannes Gmainer, at rite/
Tales vos eritis, fueram quandoque quod estis'
('In
me behold the looking glass of life: /
Such you will be, for I was what you are')."
