Lot Essay
Sold Christie's, London, 13 December 1988, lot 192.
4TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
An Etruscan repoussé sheet gold figure of Athena
4th Century B.C.
The goddess standing with left hand on her hip, (her missing right arm was probably raised to hold a spear), wearing a peplos with heavy vertical folds and a broad aegis decorated with a central Medusa head, crowned by a diadem with frieze of dotted circles
4¾in. (12cm.) high
4th Century B.C.
The goddess standing with left hand on her hip, (her missing right arm was probably raised to hold a spear), wearing a peplos with heavy vertical folds and a broad aegis decorated with a central Medusa head, crowned by a diadem with frieze of dotted circles
4¾in. (12cm.) high