sesores

Updated: June 28, 2025

This idea, however, is refuted by the evidence of Pliny, who regarded it as a genuine Egyptian relic, and tells us that it was cut from the quarry of Syene, and dedicated to the sun by the son of Sesores, in obedience to an oracle, after his recovery from blindness.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood