The Angelitos Athena is an ancient marble statue, which was made around 480–470 BC. The figure, the earliest known depiction of the armed Athena , is an example of the severe style , the transitional style between archaic and classical Greek sculpture which developed after the Persian Wars . Today it is located at the Acropolis Museum under the inventory number 140.
6-407: The statue is heavily damaged and has lost its head. Like earlier depictions of Athena she wears the archaic peplos , but she also has the aegis over her shoulders, with a gorgoneion in the centre of her chest. Her upraised right arm survives up to the wrist and once held a spear. Her left arm is entirely missing except for the shoulder and traces of her left hand resting on her waist. The statue
12-546: A palla . It should not be confused with the Ionic chiton , which was a piece of fabric folded over and sewn together along the longer side to form a tube. The Classical garment is represented in Greek vase painting from the 5th century BC and in the metopes of temples in the Doric order . Spartan women continued to wear the peplos much later in history than other Greek cultures. It
18-751: Is believed, not completely uncontroversially, to have stood atop a preserved Doric column which reads: Angelitos dedicated me. Venerable Athena, may this gift be pleasing to you. Euenor made it It was found under the Perserschutt on the Akropolis in Athens , near the Kritios Boy and the Moschophoros . Peplos A peplos ( Greek : ὁ πέπλος ) is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by c. 500 BC , during
24-414: The late Archaic and Classical period . It was a long, rectangular cloth with the top edge folded down about halfway, so that what was the top of the rectangle was now draped below the waist, and the bottom of the rectangle was at the ankle. One side of the peplos could be left open, or pinned or sewn together, with a type of brooch later called "fibula". In Latin and in a Roman context, it could be called
30-683: The sacred peplos. They had to weave a theme of Athena 's defeat of Enkelados and the Olympian's defeat of the Giants . The peplos of the statue was changed each year during the Plynteria . The peplos played a role in the Athenian festival of the Great Panathenaea . Nine months before the festival, at the arts and crafts festival titled Chalkeia , a special peplos would begin to be woven by young women. During
36-550: Was also shorter and with slits on the side causing other Greeks to call them phainomērídes (φαινομηρίδες), the "thigh-showers". On the last day of the month Pyanepsion , the priestess of Athena Polias and the Arrephoroi , a group of girls chosen to help in the making of the sacred peplos, set up the loom on which the enormous peplos was to be woven by the Ergastinai , another group of girls chosen to spend about nine months making
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