Cicero

Item

Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Reference
Cicero
Language
In Verrem, 2.4.122 (55)
Quotation
Latin
Type of Thing Ornamented
Aedis Minervae est in Insula, de qua ante dixi; quam Marcellus non attigit, quam plenam atque ornatam reliquit;
Object/ Person Ornamented
Adjective
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Building: Shrine
Cultic: Building: Shrine
Shrine of Minerva in Syracuse, Sicily
Visual Work: Painting: Panel Painting
Object: Materials: Ivory
Visual Work: Materials: Precious Metals: Gold
Medium/a Ornamenting
Visual Work: Carving
Architecture: Architectural Element: Door
Military: Arms and Armour
Notes
Panel paintings depicting King Agathocles and portraits of other kings and tyrants of Sicily
Item Identifier
Doors wrought in ivory and gold, including a carved ivory Gorgon's face, golden knobs
Determination
Reed spears