The Strangford Shield
200-300 CE
Roman Period
Roman marble copy of the shield of the gold and ivory statue of Athena from the Parthenon.
Plutarch believed it shows Pheidias and Pericles as two men standing back-to-back below the central mask of a gorgon: Pheidias the balding figure on the left with arms raised, with Perikles to the right, one foot raised on a fallen Amazon and arms raised obscuring his face from view.
Traces of the original paint remain.