Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek ...

This head is one of the most significant finds from Roman Bath. It is all that remains of a full-size, gilt bronze statue of the goddess Sulis Minerva, and stood in the temple in the heart of ...

The damaged sculptures dated to the 2nd century and depicted the head of the goddess Athena (the Roman Minerva) and what appeared to be a statue of a griffin clutching the wheel of fate ...