Athena Parthenos, Altemps Inv8622

Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano), Rome, Italy

Artist/Maker Antiochos (signed), copy of Phidias

Athena of the Parthenos Athena type. Pentelic marble, Greek copy from the 1st century BC after the original from the 5th century BC. Some 17th-century restorations: arms, ends of the belt, some folds of the peplos, aegis, tip of the nose.

Dimensions Unspecified

Credit line Former Ludovisi Collection

Accession number Inv. 8622

Location Ground floor

Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)

Athena / Minerva Gallery

Mythology Images

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