Me. 0814 :: Sculpture
- Object description
- Athena mounting a chariot drawn by four horses. Horses have long and narrow bodies and small heads without manes. The horses are bound together by a yoke on their backs; the outer horses have a girth. All horses have two narrow breast-bands, the lower ones with a small tuft. Each horse is held separately by one rein, which divides just below the neck on either side of the head; the reins are fixed to a nose-band and cheek-piece. There are two breaks on the chariot, probably these two parts joined one pole, which ran up between the inner horses. The body of the chariot is small and has rounded corners decorated with palmettes. Athena is just mounting the chariot, reins in her right hand. Perhaps she held a spear in her left hand. She is wearing a Corinthian helmet, aegis with incised scale-pattern below which two snakes are hanging down over her stomach, obliquely folded full-length tunic, and sandals.
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