Antiquities of the Jews 15.318

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Literature: prose
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Antiquities of the Jews 15.318
Quotation
πάλιν οὖν αὐτῷ τῶν πραγμάτων πρὸς ἐπίδοσιν εὐθηνουμένων βασίλειον ἐξῳκοδόμει περὶ τὴν ἄνω πόλιν ὑπερμεγέθεις οἴκους ἐγείρων καὶ κόσμῳ κατασκευάζων πολυτελεστάτῳ χρυσοῦ καὶ λίθων καὶ περιαλειμμάτων ὡς ἕκαστον αὐτῶν κλισίας μὲν ἔχειν παμπόλλους ἄνδρας ὑποδέχεσθαι κατὰ μέτρα δὲ καὶ τὰς προσηγορίας
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Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure: Interior
Object/ Person Ornamented
Rooms of palace in the upper city
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Furniture
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Visual Work: Material: Marble
Visual Work: Revetment
Medium/a Ornamenting
Expensive gold furniture, beds, multi-coloured marble slabs (revetment?)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Herod
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A00905
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