Mourning Athena

• Athena contemplating a stele (reading an inscription?)

• Pillar has been interpreted as a terma (racing turn) or horos (boundary stone).

• 0.48 meters in height.

• 470 BCE

• Deeply modeled.

• Pensive introspective figure.

• Effect depends on the collusion of viewer and piece.

• Votive piece - civic.

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