Description of Greece 2.7.5
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- Type of Thing Ornamented
- Object/ Person Ornamented
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- Medium/a Ornamenting
- Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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2nd century CE See all items with this value
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Pausanias See all items with this value
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Description of Greece 2.7.5
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ταῦτα μιᾷ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἔτος νυκτὶ ἐς τὸ Διονύσιον ἐκ τοῦ καλουμένου κοσμητηρίου κομίζουσι, κομίζουσι δὲ μετὰ δᾴδων τε ἡμμένων καὶ ὕμνων ἐπιχωρίων.
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Noun (compound) See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Deity See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value
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Secret images of gods
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Visual Work: Material: Ivory See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold See all items with this value
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Unspecified for these secret images, but others of the Dioscuri and Fortune, and as well one of Dionysus, Bacchanals, and another of Aratus, are adorned in gold, ivory, and white marble
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Sicyonians
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The actual passage suggests that there is a place called a kosmetarion in which wooden images of deities are outfitted
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A00972
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Interpreted from context