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Chryselephantine statues at Delphi

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The head attributed to Artemis bears a mild, sweet expression. She wears a golden tiara and rosette-decorated earrings. Her garment was decorated with two large rectangular lamellae of gold, positioned vertically and bearing depictions of existing or mythological animals: a gazelle, a lion, a bull, a
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Apart from the third large head (attributed to Leto, the mother of the two gods) parts of other statues and five smaller ivory heads. Additional decorative elements are preserved, made of gold or ivory, among which stand out tiles with depictions of the
188:, king of Lydia, which Herodotus so eloquently describes. This identification is however uncertain; the only certain fact is that the works are magnificent creations of the mid-6th century B.C., coming from workshops in Ionia, or, to a certain extent, 307: 168:, which was accidentally discovered in 1939, there were found several objects which had been buried because they were sacred and thus it was forbidden to sell or transform them. It seems that all these 287: 172:
in Delphi had been probably destroyed by fire around the mid 5th century B.C. Some of those probably constituted a gold-and-ivory group depicting the Apollonian triad, namely
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looking rather like a treasury. They constitute excellent specimens of mid-6th century B.C. art, coming from workshops in
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and floral items. Several decorative elements were probably attached to a wooden substratum, possibly to furniture.
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During the excavations at the dump of the Sacred Way, opposite to the
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Chryselephantine torsos in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi
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