Cast Gallery catalogue number: C079

Athena wearing a helmet, and aegis decorated with a head of Gorgo.
She once held a shield and spear.

• Plaster cast: Height: 3.31 m.
• Cast composed of a cast of a marble head placed on a cast of a separate marble body.
• The head:
  • is a version of a Greek original of about 440-430 BC.
  • was found at Tivoli.
  • is now in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. 168.
• The body:
  • is a version of a Greek original of about 440-430 BC.
  • is of the type known as Medici.
  • was found at the Villa Medici in Rome.
  • is now in Paris, Musée du Louvre, Ma 3070.