An ancient Greek statue where the head, hands, and feet were made of marble or stone while the body was made of wood.
From Greek 'akron' (peak/extremity) + 'lithos' (stone). This refers to how Greek sculptors economized by only carving the visible extremities in expensive marble and using cheaper wood for the hidden body parts beneath draped clothing.
Ancient Greek sculptors were basically the original recyclers—by only sculpting the parts you could see, they saved tons of marble and money while creating masterpieces that still blow us away today!
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