The
Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about tall, made by the Greek sculptor
Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the
Temple of Zeus there. A
sculpture of ivory plates and gold panels over a wooden framework, it represented the god
Zeus sitting on an elaborate cedar wood throne ornamented with ebony, ivory, gold and precious stones. One of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was lost and destroyed during the 5th century AD with no copy ever being found, and details of its form are known only from ancient Greek descriptions and representations on coins.