Item · Individual

ship’s cable used to hang the twelve women

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Canonical name: ship’s cable used to hang the twelve women
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Item
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: The current source does not identify this cable with the separately registered cable used to fasten the outer-court gates.

Aliases

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

·Direct

Telemachus fastens a ship’s cable high from a domed-room bearing-post around the building so the hanging women’s feet cannot touch the ground.

See evidence text

“made a ship’s cable fast to one of the bearing-posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height, lest any of the women’s feet should touch the ground”

Additional evidence

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·Direct

“he made a ship’s cable fast to one of the bearing-posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height”

·Direct

“the women have to put their heads in nooses one after the other and die most miserably”