The goddess wears long chiton covered with her aegis without a central gorgoneion but with snakes along its hem. On her head she has an Attic-type helmet. She strides to the viewer’s right raising her hand in which she would have held a spear, while she would have had her shield in the other. Athena Promachos’ figurine may have been placed on base ΕΑΜ Χ 6948.
The source of inspiration for this representation of Athena must have been the pediment sculptures of the Old Temple on the Acropolis as well as the way that the goddess was depicted on the Panathenaic amphorae.
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