Bronze statuette of Athena Promachos

Bronze statuette of Athena Promachos

Bronze statuette of Athena Promachos. About 500-470 BCE.

Statuette of Athena Promachos (type of the goddess fighting in the first rank). The goddess wears a helmet and the goatskin on the chest. In the left hand she held the shield of which the arm-band survives, and in the right the spear. According to the inscription on the base Meleso dedicated it to Athena giving a tithe of her income. Exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.