Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads 1860 during the Second Opium War, at which time the fountainheads were looted. They were originally made by an Italian Jesuit, Giuseppe Castiglione. In May 2015, Sean Parker paid US$4.4 million at Phillips for the small (gold) version of the 12-sculpture work by Ai Weiwei. In June 2015, a large (bronze) version sold at auction for $5.4 million. Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is an artwork by Chinese contemporary artist and political commentator, Ai Weiwei. The work comes in a small (gold) and large (bronze) version. Created in 2010, the zodiac heads (a Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit,
Koine Greek is also known as "Biblical", "New Testament", "ecclesiastical" or "patristic" Greek. It continues to be used as the liturgical language of services in the Greek Orthodox Church. The English-language name "Koine" derives from the Koine Greek term "he koinè diálektos", "the common dialect". The Greek word "koinē" () itself means "common". The word is pronounced , or in US English and in UK English. The pronunciation of the word in Koine itself gradually changed from (close to the Classical Attic pronunciation ) to (close to the Modern Greek ). In Greek, the language has been referred to as Ελληνιστική Κοινή,