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subject	book bibliographic info
edfu	Gordon (2020) 125, 174 Renberg (2017) 93, 525
edfu, = apollinopolis magna	Salvesen et al (2020) 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) 307
edfu, apollinopolis magna, egypt	Stavrianopoulou (2013) 109, 126
edfu, hathor-isis, queen of gods, in	Griffiths (1975) 160
edfu, horus, as harsomtus at	Renberg (2017) 525
edfu, isis, in	Griffiths (1975) 160
edfu, petaus, son of thamastos, at	Salvesen et al (2020) 316
edfu, sealing from	Griffiths (1975) 37
edfu, sealing from, consecration of temple	Griffiths (1975) 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) 125; Salvesen et al (2020) 326, 329

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

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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