Large bronze figure of Minerva
Period
Roman, 1st century B.C. – 1st century A.D.
Dimension
24.1 cm high
Provenance
Sotheby’s Antiquities, London, 9 July 1973, lot 167
Christie's Antiquities, New York, 5 June 1998, lot 181
Publications
J. Gebauer, in: Florian Knauss (éd.)
Die Unsterblichen Götter Griechenlands, Munich 2012, 269ff., ill. 17.44
Jörg Deterling
Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 2015, p. 196, note 85
Exhibition
J. Gebauer Fink, in: Florian Knauss (éd.), Die Unsterblichen – Götter Griechenlands, Munich 2012, 269ff., ill. 17.44.
Comparanda
For a closely related example see A Passion for Antiquities, Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischmann, no. 133.
The goddess wearing an extremely rare Attic helmet with stephane-like frontpiece backed with radiating spikes
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