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Statuette of Athenè Parthenos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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The recent discovery of a copy in marble of the chryselephantine statue of Athenè Parthenos, by Pheidias, has already led to the publication of several memoirs, the most recent of which by Michaelis has anticipated much that I had intended to say here. There are, however, certain points which seem to me still open to discussion. The statuette, as I have already stated in the Academy, is 1·05 metre, or rather more than 3 feet 4 inches high, inclusive of the base, and 93 centimeters without it. It represents the goddess armed with a helmet and aegis; her left hand rests on her shield set edgeways, her right hand advanced sustains a figure of Victory, her left leg is slightly bent, so that the weight of the body rests on the right leg. The goddess is clad in a talaric chiton, without sleeves, over which is an upper fold or garment falling in rich pteryges down the right side.
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page 1 note 1 Michaelis, Eine neue Copie der Parthenos des Phidias; Kabbadias, , Ἀθηνâ, ἡ παρὰ τὸ Βαρβάκειον εὑρεθεîσα, Athens, 1881Google Scholar; Hauvette-Besnault, A., Statue d'Athéné in Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Jan. 1881, pp. 54—63Google Scholar; Lange, in Mittheil. d. deutsch. Inst. in Athen, 1880, pp. 370–79Google Scholar; also my remarks, Academy, Feb. 12, 1881.
page 1 note 2 Hauvette-Besnault, following Pausanias, calls these Gryphons, but Lange says positively that they are winged horses, and this is confirmed by the evidence of the silver tetradrachms of Heraklea, probably of Ionia.
page 2 note 1 According to M. Hauvette-Besnault it is probable that the object held in the hands of the Victory was a sort of wreath. Michaelis (Parthenon, p. 275, and p. 358 of his recent Memoir) regards it as certainly a sash; but see Köhler, , in the Mittheilungen d. deutsch. Arch. Inst. in Athen, 1880, pp. 95–96.Google Scholar
page 2 note 2 See these passages, Michaelis, , Parthenon, pp. 266–270Google Scholar; and Overbeck, Schriftquellen.
page 5 note 1 See the bust of Antoninus Pius, found at Cyrene, in the British Museum. Guide to Graeco-Roman Sculptures, No. 24.
page 6 note 1 Since this paper was printed I have seen, in the Museum at Turin, a bronze figure of Athenè about two feet high, which corresponds in attire, in general pose, and in the action of both hands, with the statuette here described. The shield, spear, and Victory are wanting, but these, being of bronze, may have perished. This figure was found in Piedmont.