Sacred Athena

Athena holding her helmet

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), ca. 480 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27.122.6.

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), ca. 480 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27.122.6.

Caption note Selected DP-12516-002 is a detail view with the upper neck cropped. Caption it as a detail. Whole-vessel DP-12516-001 is also CC0 and measures 2733 × 4000 px. Do not describe the scene as a specific battle.

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