Histories 3.24.2
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- Century Range
- Precise Date or Date Range
- Location of Display
- Author
- Reference
- Language
- Quotation
- Part of Speech
- Type of Thing Ornamented
- Object/ Person Ornamented
- Type of Medium Ornamenting
- Medium/a Ornamenting
- Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
- Item Identifier
- Determination
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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5th century BCE See all items with this value
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440
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Herodotus See all items with this value
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Histories 3.24.2
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ἐπεὰν τὸν νεκρὸν ἰσχνήνωσι, εἴτε δὴ κατά περ Αἰγύπτιοι εἴτε ἄλλως κως, γυψώσαντες ἅπαντα αὐτὸν γραφῇ κοσμέουσι, ἐξομοιεῦντες τὸ εἶδος ἐς τὸ δυνατόν, ἔπειτα δέ οἱ περιιστᾶσι στήλην ἐξ ὑέλου πεποιημένην κοίλην: ἣ δέ σφι πολλὴ καὶ εὐεργὸς ὀρύσσεται.
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Verb (active) See all items with this value
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Bodies of deceased individuals in Ethiopia
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Visual Work: Cosmetics See all items with this value
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Painting to look like the deceased person in life
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Ethiopian embalmers
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A02142
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