Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Assembled from 36 blocks · 4 evidence · 27 related

1. Story
2. The chryselephantine seated Zeus made by Phidias for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia in the 430s BCE, about 12 m high, gold and ivory over a wooden core, on a throne inlaid with ebony and precious stones. Its date was confirmed archaeologically when Phidias's workshop was excavated at Olympia in the 1950s and a cup was found inscribed with the words meaning 'I belong to Phidias'. How it ended is unresolved: it may have perished when the temple was destroyed in 426 CE, or after removal to Constantinople, in a fire often dated 475 CE or in a later disaster. It is the seventh ancient wonder and is not named in this Journey's declaration.
3. Knowledge
4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
5. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
6. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
7. Connections
8. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
9. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
10. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
11. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is lost
12. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
13. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
14. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
15. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
16. Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
17. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is pulled down
18. Mausoleum sculpture is removed to the British Museum
19. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
20. Hanging Gardens (of Babylon, or of Nineveh)
21. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
22. Colossus of Rhodes
23. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
24. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
25. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
26. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
27. Antipater of Sidon
28. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
29. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
30. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
31. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
32. Evidence
33. The earliest surviving text assembling seven marvels into a single list, and evidence that the canon originally included the walls of Babylon rather than the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
34. The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.
35. Archaeological confirmation that the Statue of Zeus was made at Olympia in the 430s BCE.
36. Inscription years and property identities for the modern-list sites and Olympia.