Younger, John G.Rehak, Paul2009-04-282009-04-282009"Technical Observations on the Sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia," Hesperia 78 (2009) 41-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2972/hesp.78.1.41https://hdl.handle.net/1808/4519This article is © The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and was originally published in Hesperia 78 (2009), pp. 41–105. This offprint is supplied for personal, non-commercial use only. The definitive electronic version of the article can be found at <http://dx.doi.org/10.2972/hesp.78.1.41>.An understanding of the processes in building a Greek temple and of the processes in creating large marble sculpture supports the idea that the metopes and pedimental sculptures were installed unfinished in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. This study then reconstructs the history of the sculptures after their installation in order to understand what Pausanias saw during his visit in the mid-2nd century A.D.en-USGreekSculptureTempleZeusOlympiaPausaniasArticle10.2972/hesp.78.1.41openAccess