Artist/Maker Unknown
Athena of the Athena Parthenos type, detail. Parian marble (body) and Pentelic marble (head), Roman copy from the 1st–2nd century AD after the 5th century BC original by Phidias.
Dimensions H. 2.4 m (7 ft. 10 ¼ in.)
Credit line Borghese Collection; purchase, 1807
Accession number Ma 91 (MR 285)
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Denon, ground floor, room 8
Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)
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