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  • noun Plural form of xoanon.

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  • Wood was often, if not exclusively, used for the earliest Greek temple-images, those rude xoana, of which many survived into the historical period, to be regarded with peculiar veneration.

    A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

  • _ 1359) Orestes and Pylades are upbraided for 'stealing from the land its images and priestesses' ([Greek: kleptontes ek gês xoana kai thuêpolous]), though there was only one image and one priestess.

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

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