ForPer [[StraboStrabone]], the "carved"lo ''xoanon'' might"intagliato" alsopuò beessere ofanche ivoryin avorio; <ref>ThusPerciò heegli describesdescrive thele sculture [[chryselephantinecrisolefantino|crisolefantine]] sculpturesdello ofZeus di [[Phidias|PhidianFidia]] Zeuse anddell'Hera di [[Polyclitus|PolyclitanPolicleto]] Hera ascome ''xoana'' ande evenanche the marblela Nemesis atin marmo a [[RhamnusRamnunte]], ascome Frazerannotò notedFrazer (Frazer 1897)</ref> PausaniasPausania, howevertuttavia, alwaysusa usessempre il termine ''xoanon'' in itsal bestmeglio, strictin senso sensestretto, toper denotedenotare aun woodenimmagine imagein legno; ata [[CorinthCorinto]] PausaniasPausania notedannota thatche "TheIl sanctuarysantuario ofdi AthenaAtena Chalinitis isè bynei thepressi theaterdel teatro, ande nearvicino ita isesso anakedvi è uno ''xoanon'' ofscoperto di HeraklesEracle, saidche tosi bediceva byfosse Daidalosstato realizzato da Dedalo. AllTutti thei workslavori ofdi thisquesto artistartista, thoughsebbene somewhatalquanto uncouthsgraziati toal look atguardarsi, neverthelesshanno havein aessi, touchnonostante oftutto, theun divinetocco indi them.divino". (''DescriptionDescrizione'', 2.4.5)<!--
:''Of the works of Daidalos there are two in Boeotia, a Herakles in Thebes and the Trophonios at Lebadeia. There are also two other ''xoana'' in Crete, a Britomartis at Olous and an Athena at Knossos.... At Delos, too, there is a small ''xoanon'' of Aphrodite, its right hand damaged by time, and instead of feet its lower part is square.<ref>Compare the image of the "Lady of Ephesus" whom the Greeks called Artemis: [[Temple of Artemis at Ephesus]].</ref> I am persuaded that Ariadne got this image from Daidalos.'' (Pausanias, 9.40.3).
[[Image:Plank figure.jpg.jpg|thumb|"Plank figure" of chalk, Early Cypriot III to Middle Cypriot I, 1900-1800 BCE (Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens)]]
Riga 21:
[[Image:ArtemisEphesus.jpg|thumb|220px|left|Synthesizing the Lady of Ephesus as ''Diana Aventina'': a Roman marble copy of a Greek replica of a lost Geometric period ''[[xoanon]]'' (18th-century [[engraving]])]]
