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    Athena Cherchel-Ostia
    This statue of Athena is sometimes called Hephaisteia because once taken for the cult statue in the Hephaesteum.
    Here with a box containing the Erichthonius snake.
    Copy of an original of about 400 BCE, Height 1.40 m
    Paris, Louvre 847
     
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