The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is lost
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The chryselephantine Zeus disappears from the record in the fifth or sixth century CE. Competing accounts place its end at the destruction of the Olympia temple in 426 CE, at a fire in Constantinople recorded by Zonaras and Kedrenos and often dated 475 CE, or in a later Constantinopolitan disaster. No accurate copy survives.
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- Statue of Zeus at Olympiaconcerns
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- Story
- The chryselephantine Zeus disappears from the record in the fifth or sixth century CE. Competing accounts place its end at the destruction of the Olympia temple in 426 CE, at a fire in Constantinople recorded by Zonaras and Kedrenos and often dated 475 CE, or in a later Constantinopolitan disaster. No accurate copy survives.
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- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is lost
- Connections
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
- The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
- The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is lost
- Evidence
- Archaeological confirmation that the Statue of Zeus was made at Olympia in the 430s BCE.
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