Athena Lemnia (restoration)
Athena Lemnia (restoration)
Name: Athena Lemnia (restoration)Material: Digital
Format: Statue
Museum: An adaption of the cast in the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke, Munich (inv. no. 935).
Museum of original: Dresden State Museums (inv. no. 49)
Photographer/modeler: Davide Angheleddu
Location: The lost original by Pheidias was erected on the Acropolis, Athens, to the east of the Propylaia, as per Gorham Phillips Stevens, The Periclean Entrance Court of the Acropolis of Athens, Hesperia 5.4 (1936) 443-520 at pp. 454-455 with figures 7, 63. Cf. also Claire Cullen Davison, et al. Pheidias. The Sculptures and Ancient Sources, vol. 1 (Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2009) 45-68. After a proposal of Adolf Furtwängler, Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture, ed. A. N. Oikonomides (Chicago,1964, orig. 1895) 3-45.
Restorer: Mohamed Abdelaziz
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