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hdt: "When [Croesus] had finishing sacrificing ["three thousand of every kind of sacrificial animal" atDelphi], he melted down an enormous amount of gold and beat it out into 117 ingots . . . He also made out of pour gold a statue of a lion, which weighed ten talents. When the temple of Delphi burnt down [in548 BCE], this lion fell off the ingots which were acting as its base; it now sits in the Corinthian treasury, weighing six and a half talents, because three and a half talents of gold melted off it."
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