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subject	book bibliographic info
edfu	Gordon (2020), Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, 125, 174 Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 93, 525
edfu, = apollinopolis magna	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 4, 164, 307, 316, 317, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 428
edfu, apollinopolis magna horus, temple	Hahn Emmel and Gotter (2008), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 307
edfu, apollinopolis magna, egypt	Stavrianopoulou (2013), Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narrations, Practices and Images, 109, 126
edfu, hathor-isis, queen of gods, in	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 160
edfu, horus, as harsomtus at	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 525
edfu, isis, in	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 160
edfu, papyrus	Nutzman (2022), Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine 65, 66
edfu, petaus, son of thamastos, at	Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 316
edfu, sealing from	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 37
edfu, sealing from, consecration of temple	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 274, 293

List of validated texts:

1 validated results for "edfu"

1. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 7.426-7.430 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Edfu • Edfu (= Apollinopolis Magna)

Found in books: Gordon (2020), Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, 125; Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 326, 329

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7.426 Πεισθεὶς Πτολεμαῖος τοῖς λεγομένοις δίδωσιν αὐτῷ χώραν ἑκατὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὀγδοήκοντα σταδίους ἀπέχουσαν Μέμφεως: νομὸς δ' οὗτος ̔Ηλιοπολίτης καλεῖται." '^7.427 φρούριον ἔνθα κατασκευασάμενος ̓Ονίας τὸν μὲν ναὸν οὐχ ὅμοιον ᾠκοδόμησε τῷ ἐν ̔Ιεροσολύμοις, ἀλλὰ πύργῳ παραπλήσιον λίθων μεγάλων εἰς ἑξήκοντα πήχεις ἀνεστηκότα: ^7.428 τοῦ βωμοῦ δὲ τὴν κατασκευὴν πρὸς τὸν οἰκεῖον ἐξεμιμήσατο καὶ τοῖς ἀναθήμασιν ὁμοίως ἐκόσμησεν χωρὶς τῆς περὶ τὴν λυχνίαν κατασκευῆς: ^7.429 οὐ γὰρ ἐποίησε λυχνίαν, αὐτὸν δὲ χαλκευσάμενος λύχνον χρυσοῦν ἐπιφαίνοντα σέλας χρυσῆς ἁλύσεως ἐξεκρέμασε. τὸ δὲ τέμενος πᾶν ὀπτῇ πλίνθῳ περιτετείχιστο πύλας ἔχον λιθίνας.' " None

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7.426 3. So Ptolemy complied with his proposals, and gave him a place one hundred and eighty furlongs distant from Memphis. That Nomos was called the Nomos of Heliopoli ^7.427 where Onias built a fortress and a temple, not like to that at Jerusalem, but such as resembled a tower. He built it of large stones to the height of sixty cubits; ^7.428 he made the structure of the altar in imitation of that in our own country, and in like manner adorned with gifts, excepting the make of the candlestick, ^7.429 for he did not make a candlestick, but had a single lamp hammered out of a piece of gold, which illuminated the place with its rays, and which he hung by a chain of gold;' ' None

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