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159. Statuette of Nike. Parian marble.
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Found at Epidauros. The figure was the left akroterion on the west
pediment of the temple of Artemis. Nike flies forwards advancing her right leg.
The wings were made of a separate piece of marble and set in the sockets preserved
in the shoulders of the figure
Late 4th c. BC.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
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