File:Athena ciste.jpg

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Object

Title

French: Athéna à la ciste

Description

English: Helmeted Athena holding the snake Erichthonios in a cista (basket), detail. Roman copy of the Imperial period after a Greek original, perhaps the statue of Athena Hephaestia by Alcamenes.

Français : Athéna casquée tenant une ciste (corbeille) avec le serpent Érichthonios. Copie romaine de l'époque impériale d'après un original grec, peut-être la statue d'Athéna Héphaïstia par Alcamène.

Date

Roman Empire: 1^st century AD-2^nd century AD

Medium

marble

Dimensions

Height: 140 cm (55.1 in).

Current location

( Inventory) Louvre Museum

	Native name	Musée du Louvre
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
	Established	1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority control	WorldCat

This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities).

Accession number

Ma : 847

( MNB 2031

)

Credit line

1880: purchased

Photograph

Date

January 2005

Photographer

Marie-Lan Nguyen

Source

Own work

Permission
( Reusing this file)

I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
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I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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File usage

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Athena

Metadata

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