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Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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28Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.
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26And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many days.
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.
— 1 Maccabees 13:28 —
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.
30This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it standeth yet unto this day.