Two answers required. Along with a wood support, these two materials were used for Phidias’s monumental depictions of Athena Parthenos and his statue of Zeus at Olympia. For 10 points each:
[10e] Chryselephantine (“criss-ell-uh-FAN-teen”) sculptures are named for using what two highly valuable materials?
ANSWER: gold AND ivory [accept answers in either order; accept Au in place of “gold”; prompt on precious metal in place of “gold”]
[10h] A chryselephantine figurine of this subject at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is likely a forgery. In 1902, one of the two surviving faience (“fye-ONSS”) depictions of this figure was controversially restored so that a small cat is perched on its head.
ANSWER: Snake Goddess [or Minoan Snake Goddess; prompt on Minoan Goddess; prompt on Knossos figurines]
[10m] Hippo ivory was used for a chryselephantine statue of one of these figures found at Palaikastro. A section of Kenneth Clark’s The Nude depicts the transition from these stiff, male Archaic figures to the naturalistic Kritios Boy.
ANSWER: koûros (“KOO-rohss”) [or koûroi; reject “kórē”]
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