A bearded god, slightly over life-size, stands with his arms stretched wide, about to hurl a weapon that is now lost. Most scholars read him as Zeus with a thunderbolt, though some prefer Poseidon with a trident. Cast around 460 BCE in the Severe style, he was recovered from an ancient shipwreck off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea, in 1926–28.
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The empty eye sockets once held inlaid eyes, probably of bone. The eyebrows were inlaid with silver, and the lips and nipples with copper.
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