Epistulae ad Atticum, 1.16.18

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Epistulae ad Atticum, 1.16.18
Quotation
velim ad me scribas cuius modi sit ᾽Αμαλϑεῖον tuum, quo ornatu, qua τοποϑεσίᾳ,
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Space
Cultic: Building: Shrine
Object/ Person Ornamented
An abode of Atticus', which Cicero calls an Amaltheion.
The abode may also have taken its name from dedication to the nymph Amaltheia (see bibliography)
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Painting: Wall Painting
Architecture: Architectural Element
Nature
Medium/a Ornamenting
Likely things like statues, but also gardens, streams, porticoes, exedrae, etc (see bibliography)
Bibliography
Moore 1906
Item Identifier
A00163
Determination
Interpreted from context