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εἰκόνα. ‘A portrait made like with painting’, probably a picture on wood, such as are found on mummies of the Graeco-Roman period. It was no doubt the work of a Greek artist. We may compare the Egyptian portraits in the National Gallery (nos. 1260-70), though these are of the second or third century A. D.

θώρηκα. For the corselet cf. iii. 47. 3 n.; the groundwork was linen threads with ‘figures (ζῷα) embroidered in gold and cotton’; cf. Ezek. xxvii. 7 ‘fine linen with broidered work from Egypt’.

τῆ Ἥρη. For the Heraeum cf. iii. 60. 4.

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