Antiquities of the Jews 15.298

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Text Category
Literature: prose
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Antiquities of the Jews 15.298
Quotation
ἐντὸς δὲ καὶ κατὰ μέσην τριῶν ἡμισταδίων τέμενος ἀνῆκεν παντοίως κεκοσμημένον καὶ ναὸν ἐν αὐτῷ μεγέθει καὶ κάλλει τῶν ἐλλογιμωτάτων ἤγειρεν, ἔν τε τοῖς κατὰ μέρος διὰ πάντων ἐκόσμει τὴν πόλιν, τὸ μὲν ἀναγκαῖον τῆς ἀσφαλείας ὁρῶν καὶ τῇ τῶν περιβόλων ἐρυμνότητι φρούριον αὐτὴν ποιούμενος ἐπὶ τῇ μείζονι, τὸ δ᾽ εὐπρεπὲς ὡς ἂν ἐκ τοῦ φιλοκαλεῖν καὶ μνημεῖα φιλανθρωπίας ἀπολιπεῖν ἐν ὑστέρῳ.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Location: City
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Samaria, which Herod called Sebaste, and a sacred precinct he built within it, in which he erected a temple
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Building
Architecture: Architectural Element
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Painting
Cultic: Object: Ritual Objects
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggest: sculpture, painting, ritual objects, the architectural components
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Herod
Item Identifier
A00903
Determination
Interpreted from context