“Simon constructs, for his father and mother and brothers, out of polished stone a memorial above the tombs, just as holy preachers, by recalling to those present the deeds of the fathers who went before and their glorious end, show them with great authority as examples: for this is what it means to place polished ston…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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27Simon also built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.
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25Then sent Simon, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers.
26And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many days.
— 1 Maccabees 13:27 —
28Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.
29And in these he made cunning devices, about the which he set great pillars, and upon the pillars he made all their armour for a perpetual memory, and by the armour ships carved, that they might be seen of all that sail on the sea.