Cast Gallery catalogue number: D042

Athena, wearing a helmet but no aigis. She leans on her spear and looks down at a pillar. Her pose seems sorrowful, and it is possible that the pillar represents a list of Athenian dead.

• Plaster cast: Height: 54cm.
• Copy of a marble relief.
• The relief:
  • is known as Mourning Athena.
  • was made about 470 BC.
  • was found in June 1888, south of the Parthenon on the Athens Acropolis, built into the wall of a poros building, 0.2m below the surface.
  • is now in Athens, Acropolis Museum, 695.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

D 042
Relief with Athena; Athens

Marble
Relief
Greece, Athens, Akropolis Museum, 695