Geography 5.2.2

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
1st century BCE
1st century CE
Location of Display
Rome or Alexandria
Reference
Geography 5.2.2
Quotation
ἐκόσμησε δ᾽ οὖν τὴν Τυρρηνίαν καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ ὁ πατὴρ πρότερον, ὁ μὲν εὐπορίᾳ δημιουργῶν τῶν συνακολουθησάντων οἴκοθεν, ὁ δὲ ταῖς ἐκ τῆς Ῥώμης ἀφορμαῖς. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὁ θριαμβικὸς κόσμος καὶ ὑπατικὸς καὶ ἁπλῶς ὁ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐκ Ταρκυνίων δεῦρο μετενεχθῆναι καὶ ῥάβδοι καὶ πελέκεις καὶ σάλπιγγες καὶ ἱεροποιίαι καὶ μαντικὴ καὶ μουσική, ὅσῃ δημοσίᾳ χρῶνται Ῥωμαῖοι
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Tyrrhenia
Consuls
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Building
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Clothing: Insignia
Visual Work: Cosmetics
Medium/a Ornamenting
Tyrrhenia: seemingly, artistic works and building operations
Consuls and other magistrates - fasces, axes, trumpets, other garments worn by the triumphators (purple robes red face paint?)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus/ Lucumo
the Tarquinii
Notes
The Tarquinii are the ones who introduced the triumphal costume to Rome
Item Identifier
A01017
Determination
Derived directly from text