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colossal cult statue (destroyed)
Close ✕Statue of Zeus at Olympia
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…
37.6, 21.6 · approximate · c. 435 BCE – 5th or 6th century CE
On the world
- A place in: Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World · 12 places
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Connections
- contemporary with Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision) — Both belong to the Greek sanctuary building of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, the Zeus made in the 430s BCE and the Artemision rebuilt after 356 BCE.
- listed in The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — Named in Antipater's epigram as the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus.
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