Athena Albani

Athena Albani
440 BCE. Height 1.96 m. Villa Albani 1012, Rome.

• This statue of Athena is a copy of an original of about 440 BCE.
• To be restored with spear in right hand, shield (?) on left harm.
• The head made separately and does not certainly belong.
• She wears a wolf-head cap, the 'cap of Hades', which suggests to some the Athena Itonia of Agorakritos set beside Hades (Strabo; or Zeus - Paus.) at Koroneia.
• Dress and features are Parthonian (note the himation selvage).

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