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Modern Description: Colossal statue of Pentelic marble, the legs broken off; the head, the left arm from the shoulder and the right arm from the elbow, all made separately, are missing. The figure wears kilt, corselet and cloak. The corselet is elaborately decorated in relief: between two Victories, Athena standing on the she-wolf; on the lappets, heads of Zeus Ammon, Apollo (?), elephant's heads and smaller ornamental motifs. The back roughly blocked. Found in 1931 in the Great Drain, ca. 8.00m. east of the N.E. corner of the Metroon.
[Judith Binder: Hadrian: Statue with cuirass reliefs of Athena standing on the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, found as a cover slab of the Great Drain near its original position in front of the Stoa of Zeus Agora_S 166; Paus. 1.3.2; T. L. Shear, “The Sculpture,”, Hesperia 2 (1933) 178-183, figs. 8-10, pl. VI; Agora_vI, 71-74, pls. 36-37; Agora_Guide 1990, 66-67, 274 no. 66, fig. 31]
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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