Head of a statuette of Athena

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 635

Category

Sculpture

Period

Classical Period

Date

End of 5th cent. BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.095 m

Material

Marble from Paros

Location

Atrium. Parthenon Gallery

Description
Bibliography

Head of a statuette of Athena found on the Acropolis before 1881 and is thought to copy the head of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos made by Pheidias.

The goddess wears an attic-style helmet with raised cheek guards and crest on its top which is now broken. A few visible curls flank her face. Thanks to other statues that copied Pheidias’ Athena in antiquity we know that the helmet had three crests each one supporting a mythical creature: a Sphinx in the middle and one Pegasus on each side.

Sybel, L. von, Katalog der Sculpturen zu Athen, Marburg, 1881, σελ. 345, αρ. κατ. 5057, 1
Furtwängler, A., «Marmore von der Akropolis», Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung 6, 1881, σελ. 187, εικ. 7.2
Dickins, G., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum, Archaic Sculpture, I, Cambridge, 1912, σελ. 180, αρ. κατ. 635
Μπρούσκαρη, Μ., Μουσείον Ακροπόλεως. Περιγραφικός κατάλογος, Αθήνα, 1974, σελ. 117, εικ. 216
Παντερμαλής, Δ., Ελευθεράτου, Σ., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Μουσείο Ακρόπολης. Οδηγός, Αθήνα, 2016, σελ. 238-239, εικ. 292