The Promachus Athena, also known as the 'Great Bronze Athena', was an immense statue of the goddess of fifty feet tall created by the sculpturer Phidias. Athena is portrayed as a warrior (promachus) and her statue stood at the left side of the Sacred Road between the Propylaea and the Parthenon. A calculation of costs spread out over nine years of wood, silver, coper and tin was found. It dates from 460 till 450 BC, but we are not sure as nothing of the original statue is left besides the circular socle. If this calculation was indeed meant for this statue then costs would have been about 700 talents. The cost of building the Parthenon, the Propylaea and all the other buildings on the Acropolis was 2012 talents. The statue would have been paid for by one tenth of the booty from the Persian wars!
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