De vita Caesarum: Vitellius, 5.1

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Text Category
Literature: prose
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Reference
De vita Caesarum: Vitellius, 5.1
Quotation
at in urbano officio dona atque ornamenta templorum subripuisse et commutasse quaedam ferebatur proque auro et argento stagnum et aurichalcum supposuisse.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Temples in Africa
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Vessel
Cultic: Object: Cultic Objects
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Silver
Medium/a Ornamenting
"Ornaments of temples" some, or all, explicitly in "gold or silver". Presumably particularly statues but also could be cultic objects and vessels
Notes
Vitellius robbed away the precious metals, replacing them with tin and brass
Item Identifier
A00316
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