Athena Hygieia (reconstruction)
Athena Hygieia (reconstruction)
Name: Athena Hygieia (reconstruction)Material: Digital restored as bronze
Format: Statue
Museum: Evidence is lacking for the statue type; for attempts to identify it, see H. B. Walters, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 19 (1899) 165-168; B. Ashmole, Papers of the British School at Rome 10 (1927) 1-11. LIMC s.vv. Athena and Hygieia offers no examples; see Gilbert Charles Picard, s.v. Athena in LIMC 2.1 (Zurich and Munich 1984) 955-1110; Francis Croissant, s.v. Hygieia in LIMC 5.1 (Zurich and Munich 1990) 554-555. Our model is offered exempli gratia. It is our adaptation of G. Marchal's model of a cast of Athena Hope-Farnese in the Louvre (inv. MR 282), which we gratefully use under his CC: license.
Location: Gorham Phillips Stevens, The Periclean Entrance Court of the Acropolis of Athens, Hesperia 5.4 (1936) 443-520 at pp. 451-453 with figures 2 (I) and 11.
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Restorer: Mohamed Abdelaziz