xoanon

The image borne in procession was clearly the xoanon which was brought by Pegasus from

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

Pausanias tells us [151] that the xoanon brought from Eleutherae was in one of the two temples in the theatre-precinct, while the other contained the chryselephantine statue of Alcamenes.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

Pausanias 'use of the plural in τεταγμέναις ημέραις is excellent authority that the temple of the xoanon was opened at least on more than one day of every year.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

Here was the precinct containing two temples of Dionysus, in the older of which was the xoanon [132] brought from Eleutherae by Pegasus.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

It is also borne out by another significant and interesting fact -- that the next image to be introduced, that of Diana in the temple on the Aventine, was a copy of the [Greek: xoanon] of Artemis at Massilia, itself a copy of the famous one at

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

The word for wooden statue is [Greek: xoanon] ξόανον which is sometimes simply translated statue.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

The temple was celebrated as containing an ancient statue of Diana, the oldest or almost the oldest representation of a deity in human form known at Rome, which was a copy of a rude image of Artemis at Massilia, of the type of the famous [Greek: xoanon] of the Ephesian Artemis. [

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884