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Museum of Classical Archaeology guidebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | Early in the fifth century BCE hollow-cast bronze, which the Greeks kept shiny, became the favourite material for statues (though not for reliefs or pedimental figures), but because of the extreme scarceness of the metal in the Middle Ages very few Greek examples have survived - perhaps twenty in all. |
 | | The same scheme is used for the bronze Charioteer from Delphi (no. 93, at the further end of the middle of Bay B): this figure, of the late 470s, stood originally in a chariot with four horses abreast and wears the regulation long chiton of the racing driver. |
 | | Their creation date is around 460 BCE and, like other big pedimental groups, they were carved by several craftsmen to a design that left to them the planning of the details, including the arrangement of the drapery. |
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