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- A sphyrelaton (Gr****: σφυρήλατος for "hammer-elongated", plural: sphyrelata, σφυρήλατα) is a term used for a type of archaic Gr**** bronze votive statues...
- bronze sculptures were simple, hand-worked sheets of bronze known as sphyrelaton (literally, "hammer-driven"). Like modern clay sculpture, these metal...
- melted (and the moulds preserved, perhaps in case of repair) or hammered (Sphyrelaton technique). Ivory work was much more difficult, even if the statue of...
- Three statuettes made of bronze sheets hammered over moulding cores (sphyrelaton) "in the early orientalizing style of the late eighth century" (Boardman)...
- Speusippus Sphaeria Sphaerus Sphendale Spherical Earth Sphettus Sphodrias Sphyrelaton Spintharus of Corinth Spool-shaped pyxis (NAMA 5225) Sport in ancient...