Cast Gallery catalogue number: A029

Athena wearing a helmet, and aigis which was once decorated with a head of Gorgo separately attached. She probably once held a spear in her right hand, and a shield on her left arm.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.8m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on Aigina.
  • was made about 490 BC.
  • was found on Aigina in the early 1800s.
  • is now in Munich, Glyptothek, 74.