ANCIENT CARVED IVORIES 25 



number of chryselephantine statues, busts, and reHefs, giving 

 in some cases the names of the artists to whom they were 

 attributed in his time. The body or framework of these 

 statues, of which several were of colossal dimensions, was 

 frequently of wood, though sometimes of stone, the ivory 

 being used for the face, hands, and feet, while the hair and 

 garments and the beard, in the case of bearded gods or 

 heroes, were of gold. Sometimes all parts of the body not 

 covered by drapery were formed of ivory plates. 



The following are the principal examples of statues in 

 which ivory was employed, noted by Pausanias: 



Statue of Zeus at Athens, erected by Emperor Hadrian. 

 A colossal statue, probably a copy of the Phidian Zeus at 

 Olympia (Lib. 1, cap. 18, 6).* 



The Dionysos Eleutherios of Alkamenes, executed some 

 time between 420 and 413 B. C. (Lib. I, cap. 20, 3). 



Athene Parthenos of Phidias in Parthenon of Athens (Lib. 

 I, cap 24, 5). 



The head of the Zeus statue in Megara (Lib. I, cap. 40, 4). 

 By Theokosmos, who is stated to have been aided in the work 

 by Phidias. 



Statue of Athene in Megara (Lib. I, cap. 42, 4). Wood, 

 gilded; face and extremities of ivory. 



Parts of the Amphitrite, Poseidon, Palaemion, and Tritons, 

 and the hoofs of the horses in the group on the Isthmus of 

 Corinth (Lib. II, cap. 1, 8). 



Statue of Dionysius at Akrokorinthus (Lib. II, cap. 7, 5). 



Statue of Asklepios by Kalamis in Sikyon (Lib. II, cap. 

 10,3). 



Statue of Aphrodite by Kanachos in Sikyon (Lib. 11, cap. 

 10, 3). 



Statue of Hera, of colossal size, by Polykletus in the 

 Herseum at Argos (Lib. II, cap. 17, 4). 



*The coin we have reproduced was probably struck in commemoration of this. 



