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  • Ephesos 1001

    Chrysophoroi of Artemis
    ἱ τὸν [χρύ]σεον κόσμον βαστά- [ζον]τες τῆς μεγάλης θεᾶς [Ἀρτέ]μιδος πρὸ πόλεως ἱερεῖς [καὶ] ἱερονεῖκαι

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 123-124
    Location: Ionia: Ephesos

  • Samos 133

    Unknown
    κόσμος τῆς θεοῦ· κι[θὼ]- [ν] Λύδιος ἔξαστιν ἔχων ἰσ[ά]τιδος, Διογένης ἀνέθηκε, κιθὼν Λύδιος ἔ- ξαστιν ὑακινθίνην ἔχων…

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century BCE?
    Location: Samos

  • SEG 39:171

    Unknown
    [τάδε παρέλαβον οἱ ηἱρημένοι ἐπὶ τὰ πομπε]ῖ̣α τὰ χρυσᾶ ἐ[φ’ Ἱππ]- [οδάμαντος ἄρχοντος καὶ τὰς Νίκας τὰς χρυσ]ᾶς καὶ τὰς οἰ̣[νοχ]- [όας καὶ τὸν ἄλλον κόσμον...

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Date: 374-373
    Location: Athens: Akropolis: North Slope

  • Aleshire, Ath. Asklepieion 249,V

    Unknown
    ἐξετασμὸν τῶν ἐν τῶ[ι Ἀσκληπιείωι ἀνακειμένων ἀργυρῶν καὶ χρυσῶν — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — ἐ]ν̣ τῶι Ἀσκληπιείωι ἀπὸ Πε̣[— — — ἱερέως — — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — —]Σ v ὅπως οὖν καὶ ἡ βουλ̣ὴ̣ [καὶ ὁ δῆμος — — — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — —] τ̣ῶι θεῶι καθάπερ καὶ πρότ[ερον — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —] [τοὺς λαχόντας προέδρους εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἐ]κκλησίαν χρηματίσαι πε̣[ρὶ τούτων, γνώμην δὲ ξυμβάλλεσθαι τῆς βουλῆς, ὅτι δοκεῖ τῆι βουλῆι — — — — —] [— — — — τὸν δῆμον χειροτ]ονῆσαι δέκα ἄνδρας ἤδη π[έντε μὲν ἐξ Ἀρεοπαγιτῶν, πέντε δὲ ἐξ ἑαυτῶν — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — — — — — — —] μετὰ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τοῦ [ἐπὶ τὴν παρασκευήν — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — πρ]ὸς κόσμον τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἀναθεῖ̣ν̣[αι — — — — — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — — — — τ]ῶι ἱερεῖ ἢ τοῖς θύουσιν καὶ δεῖν̣[— — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — — — — — —]αι ἕκαστα ὡς βέλτιστα·

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 3rd century BCE
    Date: 244-243
    Location: Athens: Asklepieion

  • Epitome, 1.11.7

    Florus
    … gentem, si opulentiam quaeras, aureis et argenteis armis et discolori veste usque ad ambitum ornatam

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome (or possibly Roman Spain)

  • Ars amatoria, 3.231-232

    Ovid
    Aurea quae splendent ornato signa theatro,/ Inspice, contemnes: brattea ligna tegit

    Text Category: Literature: verse
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Location: Rome

  • Ars amatoria, 1.407

    Ovid
    Sive erit ornatus non ut fuit ante sigillis,/ Sed regum positas Circus habebit opes ...

    Text Category: Literature: verse
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Location: Rome

  • Metamorphoses, 11.3

    Apuleius
    … spicis etiam Cerialibus desuper porrectis ornata.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Noctes Atticae, 15.8.2

    Aulus Gellius
    … quando stratus lectus auro, argento, purpura amplior aliquot hominibus quam dis inmortalibus adornatur?”

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Noctes Atticae, 13.25.9

    Aulus Gellius
    “Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit.”

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • De vita Caesarum: Vitellius, 5.1

    Suetonius
    at in urbano officio dona atque ornamenta templorum subripuisse et commutasse quaedam ferebatur proque auro et argento stagnum et aurichalcum supposuisse.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 30.2

    Suetonius
    Aedes sacras vetustate conlapsas aut incendio absumptas refecit easque et ceteras opulentissimis donis adornavit, ut qui in cellam Capitolini Iovis sedecim milia pondo auri gemmasque ac margaritas quingenties sestertium una donatione contulerit.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Institutio oratoria, 2.3.6

    Quintilian
    … nisi forte Iovem quidem Phidias optime fecit, illa autem quae in ornamentum operis eius accedunt alius melius elaborasset ...

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Medea, 486

    Seneca the Younger
    ex opibus illis, quas procul raptas Scythae/ usque a perustis Indiae populis agunt,/ quas quia referta vix domus gazas capit,/ ornamus auro nemora, nil exul tuli/ ...

    Text Category: Literature: verse
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 115.9

    Seneca the Younger
    Nec tantum parietibus aut lacunaribus ornamentum tenue praetenditur

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • De providentia, 6.4

    Seneca the Younger
    Auro illos et argento et ebore adornavi, intus boni nihil est.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 7.6.4

    Valerius Maximus
    ...senatus consulto aurea atque argentea templorum ornamenta, ne militibus stipendia deessent, conflata sunt

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.2.7

    Valerius Maximus
    … instrui tamen ea argenteis vasis et anulis aureis publice praebitis patiebantur, quo talium rerum usu auctoritas magistratuum esset ornatior.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 1.1.ext.3

    Valerius Maximus
    detracto etiam Iovi Olympio magni ponderis aureo amiculo, quo eum tyrannus Gelo e manubiis Carthaginiensium ornaverat.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 10.1.24

    Quintus Curtius
    … currusque argento et auro adornati ...

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 9.7 15

    Quintus Curtius
    Invitatis deinde ad epulas legatis gentium regulisque, exornari convivium iussit.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 8.5.4

    Quintus Curtius
    … loricas quoque alias auro, alias argento adornavit.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 5.1.7-8

    Quintus Curtius
    quippe Babylona, urbem opulentissimam, dedi cernentibus: iam Susa, iam cetera ornamenta regni, causam belli, victorem occupaturum.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 3.3.20

    Quintus Curtius
    Currum decem milia hastatorum sequebantur: hastas argento exornatas, spiculo aureo praefixas gestabant.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Elegiae in Maecenatem, 63

    Vergil
    … et tibi thyrsus erat gemmis ornatus et auro ...

    Text Category: Literature: verse
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Location: Rome