Copper in Ancient India c9.s2.2

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² The sculptor of the Rhodes colossus which was a bronze statue of the sungod Helios was Chares, a native of Lindus. The work occupied him for twelve years and the statue was a gigantic one being 70 cubits high. Having stood near the harbour for 56 years it was thrown down by an earthquake about the year 224 B.C. The enormous fragments were sold in 656 A.D. by the Saraceus, who conquered the country, as old notal to a Jew who had to employ as many as 900 camels to carry them away.