Xoanon

A xoanon (/ˈzoʊ.ənɒn/ (listen), Greek: ξόανον; plural: ξόανα xoana, from the verb ξέειν, xeein, to carve or scrape ) was an Archaic wooden cult image of Ancient Greece. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether aniconic or effigy, with the legendary Daedalus. Many such cult images were preserved into historical times, though none are known to have survived to the modern day, except where their image was copied in stone or marble. In the 2nd century CE,...