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    Bronze Athena with owl (the Elgin Athena) 
    Athena held a spear in her left hand, from her right the owl is rising.
    She wears Corinthian helmet and peplos with long, girt overfall.
    Height 15 cm, about 460-450 BCE
    New York, Metropolitan Museum

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