Talk:Athena Parthenos

Ivory used on Athena Parthenos may not be imported.
In GREVENA city in Northern Greece a paleontological museum houses the biggest tusks ever found that hold the Guiness World record with length of 5 meters 2 centimeters long. Also an American archeological expedition discovered some years ago in the area of Megalopolis in Peloponesse pensinsula in depth of 70 meters the fossils of a consumed mastodon which was killed with tools made by obsidian a material only found in Milos island in Cyclades. Those two facts suggest that mastodons predecestors of mammoths and elephants lived all over main Greece and their high probability that ivory was not imported from middle East but was taken from corpses or even fossils found that era. 178.147.232.158 (talk) 22:15, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * They became extinct many millenia before the Greeks. I don't think fossil ivory would work in statues. Any sources on it being used? Dwarf elephants are your best bet, but probably none survived beyond c. 3,000 BC. Johnbod (talk) 00:12, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Alt text on images is in french
Most of the images in this article have alt text, but it is in French. Can someone translate it into English?? I could do it with Google translate but since I hardly know any French I couldn't tell if it was accurate. KaraLG84 (talk) 11:40, 12 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello! You can speak French not, but you can speak English, so that'll do; you can translate the alt text by cross-checking with the images' titles. It'd be great if you could do it, thank you. L'OrfeoSon io 11:48, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The alt text is there to provide a description of images, not just the title. E.G. One of them has the alt text of "fragment d'un objet rond décoré d'une scène de combat avec une tête grotesque au centre".
 * According to Google translate that is "fragment of a round object decorated with a combat scene with a grotesque head in the center". KaraLG84 (talk) 12:03, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, excuse me, I see your point now. In this instance, the translation is excellent, but in general a French speaker would be best. L'OrfeoSon io 12:10, 12 March 2024 (UTC)