Varia Historia 1.20

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Varia Historia 1.20
Quotation
Διονύσιος ἐξ ἁπάντων τῶν ἐν Συρακούσαις ἱερῶν ἐσύλησε τὰ χρήματα. τοῦ δὲ ἀγάλματος τοῦ Διὸς περιεῖλε τὴν ἐσθῆτα καὶ τὸν κόσμον, ὃς ἦν, φασι, χρυσίου πέντε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ταλάντων
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Sculpture: Deity
Cultic: Object: Effigies/ Representations
Object/ Person Ornamented
Cult statue of Zeus
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Clothing
Visual Work: Jewellery
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Visual Work: Inlay
Medium/a Ornamenting
Clothing and ornaments of gold - necklaces, inlays, embedded in body parts (hair, eyes), etc - totalling 85 talents
Notes
The next passage suggests gold embedded in the hair of a statue of Apollo. Dionysius I of Syracuse loots the treasure
Item Identifier
A01961
Determination
Derived directly from text