Votive Relief Dedicated to Athena (Illustration)

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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 15 May 2016

Votive Relief Dedicated to Athena — This is a marble votive relief dedicated to the goddess Athena. Winged Victory flies down to place a laurel crown on a charioteer, perhaps a victor in the Panathenaic Games. Made in Athens, about 425 BCE. From Athens. (The British Museum, London)

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Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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Amin, O. S. M. (2016, May 15). Votive Relief Dedicated to Athena. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/5093/

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