Birth of Athena with the Three Fates

Birth of Athena with the Three Fates
Height 99 cm. Archeological Museum, Madrid.

• Relief figures on cylindrical well-head (puteal), 2nd century CE, probably copying a 4th century BCE original.
• This Roman well-head in Madrid shows Zeus, Athena and Hephaistus, with Nike crowning Athena and accompanied by the Three Fates.
• If the main group owes anything to the Parthenon it is via a fourth-century relief which included the Fates.

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