Bronze statue (modern replica) Found in the sea off Cape Artemisium, Euboea, Greece in 1928. Zeus or an elderly athlete, not Poseidon (two fingers of the right hand clearly held a thong (ankyle) that would have been wound around either a thunderbolt or a javelin to give it spin; Poseidon carried a trident, a weapon that would be rendered useless if it were to spin in flight). The original was made in the middle decades of the fifth century BC.
Bronze statue (modern replica) Found in the sea off Cape Artemisium, Euboea, Greece in 1928. Zeus or an elderly athlete, not Poseidon (two fingers of the right hand clearly held a thong (ankyle) that would have been wound around either a thunderbolt or a javelin to give it spin; Poseidon carried a trident, a weapon that would be rendered useless if it were to spin in flight). The original was made in the middle decades of the fifth century BC.
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