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26 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT
Statue of Hebe by Naukydes in the Herseum at Argos (Lib. II, 17, 5).
Statue of Asklepios by Thrasymedes in Epidaurus (Lib. II, cap. 27, 2).
Statue of Zeus in Olympia, by Phidias (Lib. IV, cap. 31, 6, Lib. V, cap. 11,1).
Statue of Nicomedes in Olympia (Lib. V, cap. 12, 7).
Busts in the Herseum at Olympia (Lib. V, cap. 17, 3).
Statue of Eurydice (probably the wife of Amyntas II and mother of Philip II of Macedon) in the Herseum at Olympia.
Reliefs on the casket of Kypselus (Lib. V, cap. 17, δ).
Table in Olympia, by Kolopes (Lib. V, cap. 20, 2).
Statue of Athene in Elis (Lib. VI, cap. 26, 3). Said to be by Kolotes, a pupil of Phidias.
Statue of Athene in Pellene (Lib. VIII, cap. 27, 2). Stated to have been executed by Phidias.
Ancient ivory image of Athene in her temple at Alalko-mense. Carried off to Rome by Sylla. (Lib. IX, cap. 33,5.)
Image of Dionysos, with face, feet, and hands of ivory, in the treasury of Selinius in Sicily, at Olympia. This Greek Sicilian city was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 409 B.C. (Lib. VI, cap. 19, 10).
Statue of Endymion, entirely of ivory excepting the dra­pery, in the Olympian treasury of Metapontum (Lib. VI, cap. 19, 11).
Ancient image of Athene Alea at Tegea, carried off by Augustus with the tusks of the Calydonian Boar, one of which was half a fathom long. This image, entirely of ivory, was the work of Endceus (last half of sixth century B. C.) and was set up in Rome on the way to the Forum of Augustus (Lib. Vili, cap. 46, 1, 5).
Of the two ancient reproductions in marble of the great Athene Parthenos of Phidias which have been discovered in Greece, that found in 1880 is the more satisfactory, although
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