Sphyrelaton

Sphyrelaton (Greek for "hammer - driven " ) is a term of art.

He referred statues made ​​of cold hammered metal plates that are nailed to a wooden core. The metal may be gold or bronze. This technique was in ancient Egypt ( sheet copper statues of Pharaoh Pepi and Prince Mernere ) and Greece in use and was later replaced by the technique of the lost form. In Dreros near Lasithi three statues " in the early oriental style of the late eighth century " ( Boardman ) were hammered bronze plates over wooden mold cores found in the districts of the Temple of Apollo Delphinios; they are now in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion. Probably, these early sculptures of Apollo and Artemis and her mother Leto which are known as " Dreros triad"