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Description : circa 1st century b.c.-1st century a.d. The goddess wearing a chiton and a long mantle with overfold, pinned on the right shoulder, the ends cascading down in Archaistic zigzag folds, over this she wears a semi-circular aegis with a facing gorgoneion at her chest, the edges fringed at front and back with snakes, holding a scroll in her raised left hand, emphasizing her role as protectress of intellectual life, her right arm bent up sharply at the elbow, perhaps originally holding a spear, her wavy hair with a center-part, with a long mass hanging in back, wearing an Attic helmet with stephane-like frontpiece backed with radiating spikes or snakes 9.3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high PROVENANCE Catalogue of Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sotheby & Co., London, 9 July 1973, lot 167 NOTES For a related example see no. 133 in A Passion for Antiquities, Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman. Like the Fleischman Athena, the helmet of the present example may have been surmounted by a griffin or other attribute.
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