2 Maccabees 13:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ In that place there is a tower seventy-five feet high, full of ashes, with a rim encircling it that slopes down precipitously on all sides into the ashes. ⁶ Anyone found guilty of sacrilege, or any other heinous crime, is taken to the top and then hurled down to destruction. ⁷ Such was the fate suffered by Menelaus,^[a] the transgressor of the law, as he died without even being given the privilege of burial in the ground.