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Updated: May 16, 2025
The materials were stone, brass, ivory, gold, ebony cypress-wood; and the arts or trades that wrought and fashioned them were smiths and carpenters, molders, founders and braziers, stone-cutters, dyers, goldsmiths, ivory-workers, painters, embroiderers, turners; those again that conveyed them to the town for use, merchants and mariners and ship- masters by sea, and by land, cartwrights, cattle-breeders, waggoners, rope-makers, flax-workers, shoe-makers and leather-dressers, roadmakers, miners.
She then told him the secret; which consisted in the preparation of a certain herb boiled with ivy and rue over a fire of cypress-wood, and squeezed into a cup by hands that had never done harm. The juice thus obtained, if applied fresh every month, had the virtue of rendering bodies invulnerable.
Opposite the throne was a finely wrought tank of gypsum slabs a feature borrowed perhaps from an Egyptian palace approached by a descending flight of steps, and originally surmounted by cypress-wood columns, supporting a kind of impluvium. The Throne Room still preserved among its débris many relics of former splendour.
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