aquilasaurus:womeninruins:This marble statue of Athena Promachos (“Athena who fights in the front li
aquilasaurus:womeninruins:This marble statue of Athena Promachos (“Athena who fights in the front line”) was found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.Now lives in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Would have originally held a spear, but the metal presumably melted. -- source link
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