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Near Eastern kings dedicated luxury items in Greek sanctuaries (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Giving presents 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.03 Service of god 03.03.11 Giving presents Sculpture 06 Visual arts and architecture 06.03 Sculpture Textile industry 07 Crafts and economy 07.04 Textile industry	Keywords weaving
Period 2nd century CE Roman Empire	Channel Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

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Pausanias 5.12.4:
In Olympia there is a woollen curtain, adorned with Assyrian weaving and Phoenician purple, which was dedicated by Antiochus [Epiphanes], who also gave as offerings the golden aegis with the Gorgon on it above the theatre at Athens. This curtain is not drawn upwards to the roof as is that in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, but it is let down to the ground by cords.

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Pausanias 5.12.4

Bibliography

Dalley and Reyes 1998, 113	Dalley, S. and A. T. Reyes. “Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 85-124.
Jones and Ormerod 1960, II 446-447	Jones, W. H. S. and H. A. Ormerod. Pausanias, Description of Greece. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus

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