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Original representation of Nike relief, the following link leads you directly to the exhibit in the Acropolis Museum in Athens:
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/content/temple-athena-nike
Nike Greek "victory", Hellenistic goddess who embodies victory,
daughter of Pallas and Styx. It was mostly winged and depicted with the victory wreath (lat. Victoria). Often minted on coins in ancient Greece.
Among the most famous Nike depictions in free plastic education are the late classical Nike of Paionios in Olympia and the highly Hellenistic version of Nike of Samothrace in the Louvre. The latter shows the goddess of victory in triumphant flight on the front of a ship. Roman depictions of Victoria are mostly typologically based on Greek models and establish a tradition that continues in postantiquity, for example in the Statue of Liberty in New York.
Nike straightens her sandal. This relief was originally set into the entrance balustrade of the temple of Athena on the Acropolis. It is dated about 410 BC and originally measures 160 cm x 52 cm in width. Exhibit of the Acropolis Museum under inventory number 973.
This product was added to our catalog on Monday, October 6, 2014.