Passage 8.53.8
Χειρίσοφος δὲ ἐποίησε, Κρὴς μὲν γένος, ἡλικίαν δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν διδάξαντα οὐκ ἴσμεν· ἡ δὲ δίαιτα ἡ ἐν Κνωσσῷ Δαιδάλῳ παρὰ Μίνῳ συμβᾶσα ἐπὶ μακρότερον δόξαν τοῖς Κρησὶ καὶ ἐπὶ ξοάνων ποιήσει παρεσκεύασε. παρὰ δὲ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι ὁ Χειρίσοφος ἕστηκε λίθου πεποιημένος.
Cheirisophos was the artist, a Cretan by birth, although we do not know either his period or the identity of his teacher. The life that Daedalus spent at Knossos, under the patronage of Minos, secured for the Cretans a longstanding reputation and a tradition in the carving of wooden cult-images. A statue of Cheirisophos himself, fashioned from stone, stands beside the image of Apollo.