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Philo of Byzantium and the Colossus of Rhodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

D. E. L. Haynes
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In his article on the Colossus of Rhodes in JHS lxxvi, Mr. Herbert Maryon argues that the statue was not cast as is usually assumed, but formed of hammered bronze plates. He bases his argument on the figure of 500 talents given by Philo Byz. (iv. 6) for the weight of bronze used in the statue. A statue 120 feet high using this quantity of metal would, he calculates, have walls rather less than one-fifteenth of an inch thick, which would be impossibly thin for a large casting.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , November 1957 , pp. 311 - 312
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1957

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