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Blank postcard of Myron’s Athena

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Blank postcard featuring an illustration of a statue of the goddess Athena, created by the early classical sculptor Myron (5th cen., B.C.). The artist cast the original sculpture in bronze with another figure of the satyr Marsyas. Both figures were erected on the Athenian Acropolis.

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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute
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  • Council on Library and Information Resources

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  • Series I – Georg Bredig Papers, 1891-1944
  • Series I: Sub-Series I. Georg Bredig Subject File, 1900-1944
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  • Box 2, Folder 9

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“Blank Postcard of Myron’s Athena.” Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, n.d. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 2, Folder 9. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/vpbd6b0.

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