“... Here Aristeas concentrates on the Eleazar’s clothing. He begins by noting the “great amazement” (μαγάλη ἔκπληξις) of the members of the delegation when they saw Eleazar carrying out his “priestly service” (λειτουργία). He mentions his “tunic” (χιτών) adorned with precious stones, and with golden bells and coloured pomegranates around the “hem” (ποδήρης), the striking multi-hued “girdle” (ζώνη), the “oracle” (λόγιον), adorned with twelve flashing stones with the names of the patriarchs, the “tiara” (κίδαρις) and the “mitre” (μίτρα), the “sacred diadem” (καθηγιασμένον βασίλειον) engraved with the Tetragrammaton. All these terms apart from the “sacred diadem,” a further description of the “mitre,” appear in the description of the priestly garments in Exod 28, and as Wright notes this is a regal term, “implicitly affirming . . . that Eleazar as high priest is also the ruler of the Judeans,” thus on a par with Ptolemy. Exodus 28 seems to be the source of this description, modified to emphasise the concerns of Aristeas. ...”