Fragment of the Athena Lemnia

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Copy after the original by Phidias dating back to the mid-fifth century BC. The statue was dedicated by the Athenian citizens settled in Lemnos. The Lemnian Athena, or Athena Lemnia, was a classical Greek statue of the goddess Athena. According to Pausanias (1.28.2), the original bronze was created by Phidias circa 450-440 BCE, for Athenians living on Lemnos to dedicate on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. From the Via del Tritone (1909)