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English: Of the works of Pheidias we have unfortunately no certain copy, if we except the small replicas at Athens of his Athena Parthenos. The larger of these, uploaded here, was found in 1880: it is very clumsy, and the wretched device by which a pillar is introduced to support the Victory in the hand of Athena can scarcely be supposed to have belonged to the great original.
Date between circa 480 and circa 400 B.C.
Source Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 12, 1911, p. 485, Fig. 38.
Author Pheidias did the original upon which this is based
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