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    Athena in the Megarian Treasury Pediment
    Gigantomachy
    At the center Zeus, to the left Athena and Poseidon (crushing a giant with a rock, the island Nisyros); to the right Hercules and Ares (?); each deity with a giant foe and with serpentine familiars of the giants in the corners (or, at the left, Poseidon's sea monster).
    Pediment of the Megarian treasury at Olympia
    After Bol and Herrmann
    About 510-500 BCE
    Width 5.95 m, Height 0.85 m
    Olympia

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