Cast Gallery catalogue number: C165

Athena wearing a helmet, and aigis decorated with a head of Gorgo (on the left shoulder). She holds a box containing the serpent Erichthonios.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.5m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The marble:
  • is known as the Athena Cherchel/Ostia.
  • is a version of a Greek original of about 400 BC.
  • was found on Crete, near Selino.
  • is now in Paris, Musée du Louvre, Ma 847.

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