Model of the temple of Zeus. The acroteria, the ornaments at the corners of the roofs, are gilded bronze tripods and figures of Victory. The figures in the pediments were originally painted, but as the colours are now lost they were not included in the model. Model: Kim Allen and team. Photo: Robert Broomfield. The model was made especially by the Trustees of the British Museum for the exhibition "The Ancient Olympic Games", at a scale of 1:200, showing what Olympia would have looked like in c. 100 BC, before the buildings and alterations made by the Romans.
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