Technical observations on the sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia

Hesperia

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-105

  Younger, John G ^a   Rehak, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2972/hesp.78.1.41     Document Type: Review

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