Athena of Velletri

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Human: "She embodied the essence of metis, a term that signifies cunning and craftiness ... The word we use today to convey the same idea is indeed technology."—Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon This larger-than-life statue's original design is believed to have originated from a lost 5th-century BC Greek bronze. Many marble and plaster replicas were created in ancient times, and they are all now referred to as the most famous Roman copy, the ten-foot-tall full-figure marble discovered near Velletri, Italy, which is currently on display at the Louvre. This particular Athena of Velletri dataset originates from a 19th-century plaster replica of the Munich Glyptothek's 2nd-century AD marble. That replica is now housed in the Skulpturhalle Basel museum in Basel, Switzerland, where I captured this 3D image in September, 2013 as part of my project, Through A Scanner, Skulpturhalle.