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CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Archaistic in style, the goddess raised onto her toes, perhaps once atop an orb, clad in a long belted chiton, lifting the hem of the pleated overfold in her left hand, grasping the edge of her skirt in her lowered right hand, wearing her aegis with the gorgoneion medallion, a mantle draped over her forearms and around her back, a Corinthian helmet high on her head, topped with a mortise for attachment of the now-missing crest, her center-parted hair tied in a long braid at the back, her gaze diverted upward, the edge of her aegis with traces of copper inlay
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Archaistic in style, the goddess raised onto her toes, perhaps once atop an orb, clad in a long belted chiton, lifting the hem of the pleated overfold in her left hand, grasping the edge of her skirt in her lowered right hand, wearing her aegis with the gorgoneion medallion, a mantle draped over her forearms and around her back, a Corinthian helmet high on her head, topped with a mortise for attachment of the now-missing crest, her center-parted hair tied in a long braid at the back, her gaze diverted upward, the edge of her aegis with traces of copper inlay
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Athos Moretti, Bellizona.
with Pino Donati, Lugano.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1992 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. VII, part 2, no. 125).
with Pino Donati, Lugano.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1992 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. VII, part 2, no. 125).