(Δαμοφῶν; Damophôn)
Sculptor from Messene. Based on prosopographic and historic evidence, it would seem that he was active from the end of the 3rd cent. BC until 168 BC; most of his divine statues known from written records must have been produced in Arcadia prior to the earthquake in 183 BC. He worked on colossal acroliths and was entrusted with the repair of Phidias' Zeus in Olympia. Of a group of gods in the Asclepius shrine in Messene, the head and foot of the statues of Apollo and Hercules have survived. The most significant of his works i…