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    Athena Chalcioicus
    The Spartan sculptor Gitiadas made a bronze Athena for her Temple at Troy (Athena Chalcioicus - 'of the brazen Temple').
    Her dress is also apparently covered with bronze plates carrying panels with myth scenes.
    Pausanias describes the figure and we may get an idea of it from coins.
    Bronze coin of the Emperor Gallienus (260-268 CE) showing the Athena of Gitiadas.
    Original of about 570-530 BCE
    London

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