Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

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GOLDEN AGE OF PLASTIC ART.

doubt that they are, more or less, accurate copies of the Athene Pro-
machos of the Acropolis.

In one of these (fig. 70, a) the goddess grasps the middle of her
spear with her left hand, while her shield rests on the ground ; in

the other (70, b), she is leaning her right hand on the top of her spear,
and raising her shield with the left. The fact that the inside of the
shield was adorned by the famous toreutic artist Mys with a relief
of the Battle of the Centaurs, after a design of Parrhasius, a genera-
tion after Pheidias, makes it probable that the shield of the great
statue was on the ground, as in fig. a.

ATHENIAN COINS WITH THE ATHENE PROMACHOS.