Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.2.51
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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3rd century CE See all items with this value
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Diogenes Laertius See all items with this value
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Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.2.51
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πρῶτον μὲν τὰ περὶ τὸ μουσεῖον καὶ τὰς θεὰς συντελεσθῆναι κἄν τι ἄλλο ἰσχύῃ περὶ αὐτὰς ἐπικοσμηθῆναι πρὸς τὸ κάλλιον
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Verb (compound) (passive) See all items with this value
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Architecture: Building: Civic Building 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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The Museum in Athens, and the statues of goddesses in them
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Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Textile See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Painting See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Jewellery See all items with this value
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Unspecified; context suggests: architectural repairs, perhaps jewellery/ clothing/ painting for the statues as well as their pedestals and any added sculptural elements
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Hipparchus
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Theophrastes leaves instruction in his will for Hipparchus to use the funds bequeathed to him to repair the Museum with the statues
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A01073
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- Diogenes Laertius
- 3rd century CE
- Architecture (Ornamented)
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- Civic Building
- Building
- Architecture (Ornamenting)
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- Textile
- Jewellery
- Deity
- Statue
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- Statue - Ornamenting - Probable