Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna: Greek Collection, Room V: the Lemnian Athena.Inv. G_1061The masterpiece of the Palagi Collection is the head of Athena in Pentelic marble, a Roman copy of the lost full-length bronze sculpture of the goddess, commissioned from Phidias, between 451 and 447 BC, by a group of Athenian citizens about to found a colony on the Aegean island of Lemnos.The statue, called for this reason “Lemnia", was placed on the Acropolis of Athens as an ex-voto, to obtain the protection of the goddess,
