Cast Gallery catalogue number: C249

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Head of Athena.
See also C075b.

Plaster cast: Height: 43 cm.
Copy of the head of a marble statue.
The head:
- is a version of the head of a Greek bronze original of about 440 BC, possibly the statue known as the Lemnian Athena made by Pheidias for Athenians living on the island of Lemnos to dedicate on the Athens Acropolis.
- is now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, G1060.
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