xoana
- plural of xoanon.
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Wood was often, if not exclusively, used for the earliest Greek temple-images, those rude xoana, of which many survived into the historical period, to be regarded with peculiar veneration.
From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow