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Etruscan Votive Statuettes of Menerva (Athena)
Two Etruscan votive bronze statuettes of Menerva the warrior (Athena) wearing a high-crested Attic helmet and a cuirass with the gorgoneion, 450-400 BCE. (National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome)
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Mosaic with the Bust of Athena
A 3rd Century CE mosaic from Tusculum, a major ancient Roman city in the Latium region of Italy. Athena (Minerva), goddess of war, can be seen (middle) with the phases of the moon surrounding her. This mosaic is held in the Greek Cross Room...
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Athena Bust, Vatican Museums
The colossal head of Athena from an acrolith statue dating to the late 1st century CE and believed to be a copy of an original by Phidias. Provenance: Tor Paterno. (The Vatican Museums, Rome).
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Athena, Protective Deity of Athens
A marble statue of Athena, the protective deity of Athens. Replica of a Greek original, most likely from Italy, either c. 100 BCE or 100-200 CE. (Musee du Louvre Abu Dhabi)
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Alkyoneus the Giant Killed by Athena
Detail from the Pergamon Altar's frieze (The frieze depicts the Gigantomachy); built in 2nd century BCE; Today in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The detail is part of a scene where Athena kills the giant by separating him from the Earth.
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Athena from the Library of Pergamon
A statue of the Greek goddess Athena from the Library of Pergamon. 200-150 BCE. Height: 310.5 cm. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin)
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The Birth of Athena
The birth of Athena from the head of Zeus and with Eileithyia looking on. Black-figure amphora, made in Athens, c. 550-525 BCE.
Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Statue of Athena from Leptis Magna
Athena is draped in a sleeveless Doric peplos with an apoptygma (folding over at the top), and attached on her shoulder and girdled above her waist. Her bust is too small for her arms and legs. She wears a round helmet. Marble. Roman Period...
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Seated Athena Dish from the Hildesheim Silver Treasure
This Dish or drinking cup is part of the so-called "Hildesheim Silver Treasure" and depicts a medallion of a seated figure of Athena/Minerva wearing a triple-crested helmet. The Hildesheim silver treasure, consisting of more than 70 pieces...
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Athena, Silver Tetradrachm
Athena from an Athenian silver tetradrachm, 5th century BCE. (Numismatics Museum of Athens)