Vita Sophistarum 605

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Author
Philostratus the Athenian
Reference
Vita Sophistarum 605
Quotation
οῦτο μὲν δὴ τοὖργον ἀπὸ πολλῶν χρημάτων ἀποτελεσθὲν ἐπέγραψεν ἀπὸ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γυναικός, τὸ δὲ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἑστιατήριον αὐτὸς ἀνέθηκε μεγέθει τε ἐξάρας ὑπὲρ πάνθ᾿ ὁμοῦ τὰ παρ᾿ ἑτέροις καὶ λόγου κρείττω περιβαλὼν κόσμον,ὡράισται γὰρ Φρυγίῳ λίθῳ, οἷος οὔπω ἐτμήθη.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Architectural Element
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Banqueting hall in the Temple of Ephesus
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Marble
Medium/a Ornamenting
Phrygian marble
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Damianus of Ephesus
Item Identifier
A02025
Determination
Derived directly from text