Athena with Crossed Aegis, torso and head in frontal view

Athena with Crossed Aegis, torso from right

Athena with Crossed Aegis, near right profile view

Athena with Crossed Aegis, detail of upper torso and head in right profile

Athena with Crossed Aegis, view from left

Athena with Crossed Aegis, detail of torso from right

Collection: Berlin, Antikenmuseen
Title: Athena with Crossed Aegis
Context: From Pergamon
Findspot: Found at Pergamon, in western part of North Stoa (1880)
Summary: Athena with Crossed Aegis
Object Function: Unknown
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue
Category: Single monument
Style: Eclectic
Technique: In-the-round
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 150 BC
Dimensions: H. 1.87 m
Scale: Life-size
Period: High Hellenistic

Subject Description: Athena leans on her straight right leg, pulls her left leg back slightly, and turns her head slightly to her left, and down. She wears her normal peplos, with long belted overfold, but a simplified aegis that consists of two bands that cross her chest.

Form & Style: The composition of the body is reminiscent of Polykleitan influenced high classical figures.

Condition: Nearly complete

Condition Description: Missing most of right arm, including hand and elbow; Left arm restored, but still missing thumb; head reattached. Some painted traces remain.

Material Description: Parian

Sources Used: Kunze 1992, 178-79, cat. 76

Other Bibliography: AvP, 3.1, 13 ff., no. 22; Vierneisel-Schlörb 1979, 127 n. 458; AM 90 (1975) 25 ff., pl.