Bronze God from Cape Artemision

about 460 BCE

Bronze, 82 1/4 in. high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Look at the pose: the whole body is one wide stance, arms stretched out to balance a throw that is about to happen.

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The arms reach almost the figure's full height side to side, so the statue is as wide as it is tall.
Both feet are planted wide, one leg bent and one straight, a stride caught mid-step.
Chest and stomach are modelled as broad, firm planes, with no strain in the face.
The beard is a mass of tight curls and the hair a flat braid, the only fine detail on a plain body.

Nothing is in either hand, so it is read as Zeus with a thunderbolt or Poseidon with a trident. It was pulled from the sea off Euboea.