Image: Apollo ivory mask

Description: The Apollo ivory mask is one of the world's rarest and most important looted antiquities. A unique life-size ivory head of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, it is from a fifth century BC chryselephantine statue. Many experts believe that it was carved by the classical sculptor Phidias, considered to have perhaps been the greatest of all Ancient Greek sculptors. Responsible for many of the marble reliefs on the Parthenon, Phidias also carved two legendary chryselephantine (Greek for gold and ivory) statues: the Athene Parthenos and the statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, which was taken to Constantinople and destroyed in a palace fire in AD 475. More info: <a href="http://www.jamestwining.com/learn-more/the-geneva-deception/apollo-ivory-mask" rel="nofollow">www.jamestwining.com/learn-more/the-geneva-deception/apol...</a>
Title: Apollo ivory mask
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