Athena Basel

Athena Basel
About 420-400 BCE. Marble, Height 0.53 m. Antikenmuseum BS228, Basel.

• The eyes were inlaid, the aegis snakes and belt ornament added in metal.
• This handsome Athena in Basel seems to fly like the Nikai (Victories) and her flat back suggests that she had been fastened to a background slab.
• The inlaid eyes are unexpected in a marble and it is difficult to imagine its original setting and context

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