Cast Gallery catalogue number: C073

Head of Athena (copy of Myron's group of Athena and Marsyas).
See also C071.

Plaster cast: Height: 45 cm.
Copy of a head from a marble statue.
The statue:
- is a version of part of a bronze group made about 450-440 BC. by the sculptor Myron of Eleutherai.
- was found in Apulia.
- was purchased by Dresden from Rome in 1899.
- is now in Dresden, Staatliche, Kunstsammlungen, Albertinum, 48.