Colossus

An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used In Art and Archealogy. · 1883 · p. 11

( κολοσσός ). The word was used for all statues larger than life; that at Rhodes was ninety feet high. The Minerva and Jupiter Olympus of Pheidias, the Farnese Hercules, and the Flora of the Belvidere, were all colo al.