Book Title: Septuaginta interpretum ... quem ex antiquissimo MS. codicè Alexandrino accurate descriptum ... / Summa cura edidit Joannes Ernestus Grabe

Author: Grabe, Joannes Ernestus, 1666-1711

Image Title: Desecration of the Temple

Scripture Reference:

• 1 Maccabees 1 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Soldiers of the Seleucid emperor King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (r. 175–163 BCE) loot and desecrate the Temple in Jerusalem. The engraver, J. Cole, has left his signature in the lower right.

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