honorthegods:Mosaic of Minerva from Tusculum, 3rd century CE. The surrounding lunar phases were adde
honorthegods:Mosaic of Minerva from Tusculum, 3rd century CE. The surrounding lunar phases were added at the time of installation in the Vatican Museum, 18th century.The goddess is shown with the aegis, an abject which, according to Virgil “… Athene wears in her angry moods - a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess’s breast—a severed head rolling its eyes.” -- source link
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