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The material was what the Greeks called chryselephantine; that is, the flesh was composed of plates of ivory skillfully laid on; but the drapery and ornaments were pure gold.

There was the grove of Altis, in which were ranged the statues of the victorious athletes, and the temple of Olympian Zeus with the chryselephantine statue of the god, the masterpiece of Pheidias.

In the atrium of the fictional Megalopolitan Building at 700-853 Fleet Street there is a “chryselephantine effigy of Lord Copper,” The Beast’s proprietor, “in coronation robes, rising above the throng, on a polygonal malachite pedestal.”

In the chryselephantine, or ivory statues of Jove and Minerva, by Phidias, art was made a handmaid to religion.

The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the civic flag.