Cast Gallery catalogue number: C080

Athena wearing a wolf-head cap, and aigis decorated with a head of Gorgo. She once held a spear in her right hand and perhaps had a shield on her left arm. The head may not belong with the body.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.06m.
• Copy of a marble statue composed of a head placed on a body found separately.
• The head and body:
  • are from versions of a Greek original of about 430-420 BC.
  • were both found at Tivoli, have been joined together and are now in Rome, Villa Albani, inv. 1012.
• The statue is of the type known as Albani.