Thesaurus
In ancient times, a thesaurus or treasure house was a building in a sanctuary used to store precious votive offerings . It was often shaped like an ante temple . The ancient temples often also functioned as commercial banks .
Famous for their treasure houses are Delphi , where the reconstructed treasure house of the Athenians can be seen, and Olympia with the treasure house of the Sikyonians . Because of the earthquake and other damage, only foundations and rubble can be seen here, but the Museum of Olympia shows the reconstruction of the treasure house terrace by Wilhelm Dörpfeld .
Etymological influence
From the word Thesauros a series of was foreign words derived, which - partly in a figurative sense - refer to the storage resources or "values": So called Accumulation one hand in finance keeping Direct economic gains in the company, on the other hand generally hoarding Money and precious metals. In church institutions such as chapters and monasteries, thesauraries are responsible for the management of goods and assets, and a thesaurus can be a collection of terms or a collection of vocabulary. Thesaurosis , on the other hand, is to be understood in a more negative sense , a metabolic disorder in which a metabolic product is pathologically accumulated in the body. Another, less obvious example is Tresor .
literature
- Khaled Ahmed Hamza Awad: Investigations into the Treasury in the New Kingdom. 2002 ( full text as PDF file )
