Re: Who has it?


"Sanity" <sanity-clause@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:a0a54d36-7e62-4608-8add-d89f5260b329@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jan 30, 7:35 pm, "Moon Shine" <msh...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Sanity" <sanity-cla...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jan 30, 2:45 pm, "freak vent flyer" <freakvent_fl...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> His tomb has never been found.

>I heard a rumor that his tomb was found, his casket was solid gold,
>and his remains were preserved by immersion in honey. Neat rumor huh?

>Sanity

That's weird. Wikipedia backs this up.
Alexander's body was placed in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus, which was in
turn placed in a second gold casket and covered with a purple robe.
Alexander's coffin was placed, together with his armour, in a gold carriage
that had a vaulted roof supported by an Ionic peristyle. The decoration of
the carriage was very lavish and is described in great detail by Diodoros.

According to one legend, Alexander was preserved in a clay vessel full of
honey (which can act as a preservative) and interred in a glass coffin.
According to Aelian (Varia Historia 12.64), Ptolemy stole the body and
brought it to Alexandria, where it was on display until Late Antiquity. It
was here that Ptolemy IX, one of the last successors of Ptolemy I, replaced
Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one, and melted the original down in
order to strike emergency gold issues of his coinage. The citizens of
Alexandria were outraged at this and soon after Ptolemy IX was killed.

The Roman emperor Caligula was said to have looted the tomb, stealing
Alexander's breastplate, and wearing it. Around 200 AD, Emperor Septimius
Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public. His son and successor,
Caracalla, was a great admirer of Alexander, and visited the tomb in his own
reign. After this, details on the fate of the tomb are sketchy.

The so-called "Alexander Sarcophagus," discovered near Sidon and now in the
Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is now generally thought to be that of
Abdylonymus, whom Hephaestion had appointed as the king of Sidon by
Alexander's order. The sarcophagus depicts Alexander and his companions
hunting and in battle with the Persians.

But who has his sword now?

I give up. Who?

.

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