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1st century CE See all items with this value

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Flavius Josephus See all items with this value

Antiquities of the Jews 15.279-280

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Ἡρώδης δὲ τεταραγμένους ὁρῶν καὶ μὴ ῥᾳδίως ἂν μεταπεσόντας, εἰ μὴ τύχοιεν παρηγορίας, καλέσας αὐτῶν τοὺς ἐπιφανεστάτους εἰς τὸ θέατρον παρήγαγεν καὶ δείξας τὰ τρόπαια, τί ποτ’ ἔστιν ὃ δοκεῖ ταῦτα αὐτοῖς ἐπύθετο. τῶν δὲ ἐκβοησάντων ἀνθρώπων εἰκόνες, ἐπιτάξας ἀφαιρεθῆναι τὸν περιθέσιμον κόσμον ἐπιδείκνυσιν αὐτοῖς γυμνὰ τὰ ξύλα. τὰ δ’ εὐθὺς ἦν ἀποσυληθέντα γέλως καὶ πλεῖστον εἰς διάχυσιν ἐδυνήθη τὸ καὶ πρότερον αὐτοὺς ἐν εἰρωνείᾳ τίθεσθαι τὰς κατασκευὰς τῶν ἀγαλμάτων.

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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value

Wooden statues of men

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Visual Work: Jewellery See all items with this value

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Outward ornaments of the wooden core of the statues, which were stripped away - likely including clothing, jewellery, and perhaps marble added to them

Herod

Context (passages before and after) explain that these are trophies in the theatre. The local people of Jerusalem objected to these trophies since they were "images of men" - so he stripped the theatre of these ornaments, leaving pieces of naked wood

A00902

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1st century CE

Visual Work (Ornamented)

Sculpture (Ornamented)

Material

Marble

Clothing

Jewellery

Statue - Ornamented - Definite