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Lot 27

A Roman bronze figure of Athena

3 July 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,760 inc. premium

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A Roman bronze figure of Athena

Circa 2nd Century A.D.
17.5cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's New York, Antiquities and Islamic Art, 1st June 1995, lot 154.
London art market.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams London, Antiquities, 8th November 2001, lot 127.
Private collection, London, acquired from the above sale.

This figure bears a resemblance to Athena Lemnia, with her downcast eyes, the modelling of the aegis with gorgoneion and the serpents on her drapery. Phidias created the eponymous bronze statue in the 5th Century B.C. for the people of the island of Lemnia, as a dedication at the Acropolis in Athens (see A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture, vol.II, Yale, 1990, no.313).

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