Decree Relief with Athena

late 5th century BCE (Classical)

22.6 cm 51.1 cm 16.9 cm

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Athena rests her left arm on a pillar, over which is draped her "aegis" (a powerful and protective scaly animal skin) with a Gorgon head. Athena's pose exemplifies the grace associated with the Classical art of late 5th-century Athens. Standing beside her would have been the...

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E. Zoumpoulakis, Athens, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, 1924 [Brummer inv. no. P1350]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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