Endnote 8 - True Colors
Josephus, Antiquities 3.291–292. Josephus reminds his readers that this sort of horn is “called an asosra in the Hebrew tongue,” derived from the Hebrew ḥatsrotsra of Numbers 10:1.
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Endnote 7 - True Colors
Orietta Rossini, Ara Pacis (Milan: Electa, 2007), pp. 134–141.
Endnote 6 - True Colors
Steven Fine, “Who Is Carrying the Temple Menorah? Jewish Counter-Memory and the Arch of Titus Spolia Panel,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 9 (2016); Fine, The Menorah, pp. 1–162.
Endnote 5 - True Colors
Josephus, Jewish War 7.148–153, citing the translation of Henry St. John Thackeray, Josephus: The Jewish War, Loeb Classical Library, vol. 3 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1928), p. 549.
Endnote 4 - True Colors
The base of this menorah is discussed in Fine, The Menorah, pp. 2–36.
Endnote 3 - True Colors
Preliminary versions of the papers delivered at Caligula 3-D: Man, Myth, Emperor, a symposium organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on December 4, 2011, may be found at www.digitalsculpture.org/papers/index_papers.html. See Peter Schertz and Bernard Frischer, eds., Man, Myth, and Emperor (Leiden and Boston: Brill, forthcoming).
Endnote 2 - True Colors
See, e.g., Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche, eds., Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity: Exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, in Cooperation with Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek Munich, Stiftung Archaëologie Munich, September 22, 2007–January 20, 2008 (Munich: Stiftung Archaëologie Glyptothek, 2007) and the associated gallery guide (christogenea.org/resources/Harvard%20gods%20in%20color%20gallery%20guide.pdf).
Endnote 1 - True Colors
This experience is discussed in Steven Fine, The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2016), pp.1–16. On the colorization project described in this article, see Steven Fine, Peter J. Schertz and Donald H. Sanders, “The Arch of Titus in Color: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Polychromy of the Menorah Panel,” forthcoming. See also Steven Fine, “Menorahs in Color: Polychromy in Jewish Visual Culture of Roman Antiquity,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 6.1 (2012), pp.
Footnote 1 - True Colors
Strata: “Caligula Reveals His True Colors,” BAR, 37:06.
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