Athena-Neith on a lamp, clay, pressed into the form, hand modelled, Total: Height: 19,1 cm; Width: 9 cm; Depth: 6,4 cm, ceramic, illumination/lamps, Hellenism, A carrying lamp with a tub-shaped body rises a column against which a woman with a shield leans. The column itself is crowned by a swan's head, which looks out of a feather capital. The woman is probably the goddess Athena. She is standing there with her legs crossed and her arm braced in her hip. She is wearing only a short chiton. Under her helmet, her hair falls onto her shoulders in luxuriant corkscrew curls.

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Size: 2948px × 4320px
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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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