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<span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">xeein</i></span>, to carve or scrape [wood]<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) was a wooden <a href="/wiki/Cult_image" title="Cult image">cult image</a> of <a href="/wiki/Archaic_Greece" title="Archaic Greece">Archaic Greece</a>. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether <a href="/wiki/Aniconic" class="mw-redirect" title="Aniconic">aniconic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Effigy" title="Effigy">effigy</a>, with the legendary <a href="/wiki/Daedalus" title="Daedalus">Daedalus</a>. Many such cult images were preserved into historical times, though none are known to have survived to the modern day, except as copies in stone or marble. In the 2nd&#160;century CE, <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> described numerous xoana in his <i>Description of Greece</i>, notably the image of <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a> in her temple at <a href="/wiki/Samos" title="Samos">Samos</a>. "The statue of the Samian Hera, as Aethilos &#32;&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>&#93;<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> says, was a wooden beam at first, but afterwards, when <a href="/wiki/Prokles" class="mw-redirect" title="Prokles">Prokles</a> was ruler, it was humanized in form".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In Pausanias' travels he never mentions seeing a xoanon of a "mortal man". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types_of_xoana">Types of xoana</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xoanon&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Types of xoana"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some types of archaic xoana may be reflected in archaic marble versions, such as the pillar-like "<a href="/wiki/Heraion_of_Samos#Sculpture" title="Heraion of Samos">Hera of Samos</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Louvre_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Louvre Museum">Louvre Museum</a>), the flat "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Hera_of_Delos&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Hera of Delos (page does not exist)">Hera of Delos</a>" or some archaic <a href="/wiki/Kouros" title="Kouros">kouros</a>-type figures that may have been used to represent <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>. </p><p>A different type of cult figure in which the face, hands, and feet were carved of marble and the rest of the body made of wood is called <a href="/wiki/Acrolith" title="Acrolith">acrolith</a>. The wooden part was usually covered either with cloth or <a href="/wiki/Gold_leaf" title="Gold leaf">gold leaf</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Woods_and_textiles">Woods and textiles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xoanon&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Woods and textiles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-StraboGeog_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StraboGeog-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the "carved" xoanon might also be of <a href="/wiki/Ivory" title="Ivory">ivory</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Pausanias, however, always uses <i>xoanon</i> in its strict sense, to denote a wooden image; at <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinth</a> Pausanias noted that "The sanctuary of Athena Chalinitis is by the theater, and near it is a naked xoanon of Herakles, said to be by Daidalos. All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Of the works of Daidalos there are two in Boeotia, a Herakles in Thebes and the Trophonios at Lebadeia. There are also two other xoana in Crete, a <a href="/wiki/Britomartis" title="Britomartis">Britomartis</a> at Olous and an Athena at Knossos. ... At Delos, too, there is a small xoanon of Aphrodite, its right hand damaged by time, and instead of feet its lower part is square.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> I am persuaded that Ariadne got this image from Daidalos.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Pausanias, 9.40.3</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Similar xoana were ascribed by the Greeks to the contemporary of Daedalus, the equally legendary <a href="/wiki/Smilis" title="Smilis">Smilis</a>. Such figures were often clothed in real textiles, such as the <a href="/wiki/Peplos" title="Peplos">peplos</a> that was woven and ceremonially delivered to Athena on the Acropolis of Athens into historic times. </p><p>The wood of which a xoanon was carved was often symbolic: olivewood,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> pearwood, <i><a href="/wiki/Vitex_agnus-castus" title="Vitex agnus-castus">Vitex</a></i>, oak,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> are all specifically mentioned. </p><p>In Athens, in the <a href="/wiki/Erechtheum" class="mw-redirect" title="Erechtheum">Erechtheum</a>, an ancient olivewood<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> effigy of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> was preserved. The Athenians believed it had fallen to earth from the heavens, as a gift to <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>; it was still to be seen in the 2nd century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On the island of <a href="/wiki/Icaria" title="Icaria">Icaria</a> a rustic piece of wood was venerated for the spirit of <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> it contained or represented (Burkert).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Copies_of_venerable_images">Copies of venerable images</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xoanon&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Copies of venerable images"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ArtemisEphesus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/ArtemisEphesus.jpg/220px-ArtemisEphesus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="383" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/ArtemisEphesus.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="550" /></a><figcaption>Synthesizing the Lady of Ephesus as Diana Aventina: a Roman marble copy of a Greek replica of a lost Geometric period xoanon (18th-century <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engraving</a>).</figcaption></figure> <p>The importance of the xoanon in local cult ensured that it would be carefully copied when colonies were founded, and sent out with the colonists from the mother-city. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a> (4.1)<sup id="cite_ref-StraboGeog_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StraboGeog-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> reports that the <a href="/wiki/Metropolis" title="Metropolis">metropolis</a> <a href="/wiki/Marseilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Marseilles">Massilia</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Marseille" title="Marseille">Marseille</a>) was founded by <a href="/wiki/Phocaea" title="Phocaea">Phocaeans</a>. Their cult of <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Ephesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Ephesus">Artemis of Ephesus</a> was transferred with the colony, justified in the <a href="/wiki/Founding_myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Founding myth">founding myth</a> by a dream, and the artistic design of the cult image — Strabo uses the term <i>diathesis</i> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> διάθεσις) — was re-exported to Massiliote sub-colonies, "where they keep the diathesis of the xoanon the same, and all the other usages precisely the same as is customary in the mother-city".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similarly, cementing cultural ties between the <a href="/wiki/Phocaea" title="Phocaea">Phocaean</a> colony at <a href="/wiki/Marseilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Marseilles">Massilia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Phocaea" title="Phocaea">Phocaean</a> community in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, "Among the others, the Romans have consecrated Artemis' xoanon on the Aventine, taking the same model from the Massiliotes" (Strabo, 4.1.5).<sup id="cite_ref-StraboGeog_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StraboGeog-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> So the cult image of the <a href="/wiki/Artemis_of_Ephesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis of Ephesus">Lady of Ephesus</a>, identified as <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">Greek understanding</a>, was established as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Diana_Aventina&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Diana Aventina (page does not exist)">Diana Aventina</a> at Rome, of whom marble copies survive (see illustration at right). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xoanon&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphic_wooden_cult_figurines_of_Central_and_Northern_Europe" title="Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe">Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daidala" title="Daidala">Daidala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cycladic_art" title="Cycladic art">Cycladic art</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xoanon&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The name <i>Aethilos</i> in the available text is thought to be a mis-spelling of <i>Aethlios</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thus <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a> describes the <a href="/wiki/Chryselephantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Chryselephantine">chryselephantine</a> sculptures of <a href="/wiki/Phidias" title="Phidias">Phidian</a> Zeus and <a href="/wiki/Polykleitos" title="Polykleitos">Polyclitan</a> Hera as xoana, and even the marble Nemesis at <a href="/wiki/Rhamnus_(Greek_archaeological_site)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhamnus (Greek archaeological site)">Rhamnus</a>, as Frazer noted (Frazer 1897).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Compare the image of the "Lady of Ephesus" whom the Greeks called Artemis: <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis_at_Ephesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Artemis at Ephesus">Temple of Artemis at Ephesus</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The olive is sacred to Athena.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The oak is especially sacred to Zeus.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> describes how in the cave of <a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a> numerous wooden images are to be seen in <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFOvid" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i>. 10.693&#160;ff.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Metamorphoses&amp;rft.pages=10.693-ff&amp;rft.au=Ovid&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xoanon&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Dict-Pronounce-xoanon-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Dict-Pronounce-xoanon_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/xoanon">"xoanon"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary.com" title="Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com Unabridged</a></i> (Online). n.d<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2014-11-13</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=xoanon&amp;rft.btitle=Dictionary.com+Unabridged&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dictionary.com%2Fbrowse%2Fxoanon&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBennett1917" class="citation journal cs1">Bennett, Florence M. (January 1917). "A study of the word ΞΟΑΝΟΝ". <i>American Journal of Archaeology</i>. <b>21</b> (1): 8–21. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F497155">10.2307/497155</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/497155">497155</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:193009224">193009224</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=American+Journal+of+Archaeology&amp;rft.atitle=A+study+of+the+word+%CE%9E%CE%9F%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%9F%CE%9D&amp;rft.volume=21&amp;rft.issue=1&amp;rft.pages=8-21&amp;rft.date=1917-01&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A193009224%23id-name%3DS2CID&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F497155%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F497155&amp;rft.aulast=Bennett&amp;rft.aufirst=Florence+M.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span> Bennett appends a list of the sixty-six <i>xoana</i> mentioned by Pausanias, who sometimes uses the phrase <i>xylon agalma</i>, "sculptured image of wood"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClement_of_Alexandria" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Clement_of_Alexandria" title="Clement of Alexandria">Clement of Alexandria</a>. <i>Protrepticus</i>. 40, 41, cited in Stewart.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Protrepticus&amp;rft.pages=40%2C+41%2C+cited+in+Stewart&amp;rft.au=Clement+of+Alexandria&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-StraboGeog-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-StraboGeog_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-StraboGeog_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-StraboGeog_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStrabo1917" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a> (1917). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/geographyibooksl00stra"><i>Geography</i></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Geography&amp;rft.date=1917&amp;rft.au=Strabo&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgeographyibooksl00stra&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPausanias" class="citation book cs1">Pausanias. <i>Description of Greece</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.5">2.4.5</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Description+of+Greece&amp;rft.pages=2.4.5&amp;rft.au=Pausanias&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAthenagoras" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Athenagoras_of_Athens" title="Athenagoras of Athens">Athenagoras</a>. <i>Legatio</i>. 17.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Legatio&amp;rft.pages=17&amp;rft.au=Athenagoras&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPausanias" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>. <i>Description of Greece</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.26.6">1.26.6</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Description+of+Greece&amp;rft.pages=1.26.6&amp;rft.au=Pausanias&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, as quoted in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDueckLindsayPothecary2005" class="citation book cs1">Dueck, Daniela; Lindsay, Hugh; Pothecary, Sarah (2005). <i>Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia</i>. p.&#160;121.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Strabo%27s+Cultural+Geography%3A+The+Making+of+a+Kolossourgia&amp;rft.pages=121&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.aulast=Dueck&amp;rft.aufirst=Daniela&amp;rft.au=Lindsay%2C+Hugh&amp;rft.au=Pothecary%2C+Sarah&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xoanon&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStewart" class="citation book cs1">Stewart, Andrew. <i>One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=One+Hundred+Greek+Sculptors%3A+Their+Careers+and+Extant+Works&amp;rft.aulast=Stewart&amp;rft.aufirst=Andrew&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurkert1985" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Burkert" title="Walter Burkert">Burkert, Walter</a> (1985). <i>Greek Religion</i>. II.5.3 Temple and Cult Image.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Greek+Religion&amp;rft.pages=II.5.3+Temple+and+Cult+Image&amp;rft.date=1985&amp;rft.aulast=Burkert&amp;rft.aufirst=Walter&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPausanias" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/James_George_Frazer" title="James George Frazer">Pausanias</a>. <i>Description of Greece, translation and commentary</i>. Translated by Frazer, James George. II, pages&#160;69–70.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Description+of+Greece%2C+translation+and+commentary&amp;rft.pages=II%2C+pages-69-70&amp;rft.au=Pausanias&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AXoanon" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDonohue,_A._A.1988" class="citation book cs1">Donohue, A. A. 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