Sacred Athena

Gilded Minerva clock

Minerva clock, ca. 1772, with later alterations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.489.

Minerva clock, ca. 1772, with later alterations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.489.

Caption and print note The case is dated about 1772, with later alterations; its present movement is a nineteenth-century replacement. The medallion shows Prudence at the shrine of Time. This is later reception rather than evidence for ancient worship.

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