Relief depicting Athena

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 2605

Category

Sculpture

Period

Classical Period

Date

Around 420 BC

Dimensions

Height: 1.125 m
Length: 0.47 m
Width: 0.155 m

Material

Marble

Location

First Floor, North

Description
Bibliography

Part of a votive relief the right corner of which is missing. A small building, most possibly a naiskos (small temple), with antas on its side and antefixes on the roof is depicted. Inside the naiskos a woman stands before an offering bench. Outside sits Athena with her shield on the ground as if she rests after a battle.

Most possibly the naiskos copies the small Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis and the woman inside it the cult statue of Athena Nike. According to Heliodorus, the statue portrayed the goddess with a helmet in her left hand and a pomegranate in the right, thus symbolising her double warrior and peaceful nature.

Walter, O., Beschreibung der Reliefs im kleinen Akropolismuseum in Athen, Wien, 1923, σελ. 46-48, εικ. 76, αρ.κατ. 76
Ridgway, B.S., «Images of Athena on the Akropolis», στο J. Neils (επιμ.), Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, September 12-December 6, 1992 and 3 other locations, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1992, σελ. 136, εικ. 87
Lawton, C., «Attic Votive Reliefs and the Peloponnesian War», στο O. Palagia (επιμ.), Art in Athens during the Peloponnesian War, New York - Cambridge, 2009, σελ. 67-68, 82, εικ. 18, αρ.κατ. 4
Παντερμαλής, Δ., Ελευθεράτου, Σ., Βλασσοπούλου, Χ., Μουσείο Ακρόπολης. Οδηγός, Αθήνα, 2016, σελ. 248, 250, εικ. 307