Newton Hall (Walston) Athena

Description

A marble statue of Athena. She stands with her left hand on her hip; in her (lost) right hand she would have carried a spear. She wears a Corinthian helmet tipped back on her head, a chiton, and over it a himation that is bunched in thick folds beneath her breast, with an aegis poking out above the folds. 2nd Century AD. Dimension(s): height, 1.625, m width, 0.64, m depth, 0.35, m, approx weight, 394.5, kg, approx Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2005 Object Number: GR.1.2006 (Antiquities) https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/126177 Model by Daniel Pett, 292 Sony A6000 photos (in gallery), processed on low settings Metashape Standard.