Athena of the Medici type whose torso is of identical size and has many similarities with the Pallas Pacifera with whom she is paired in the main courtyard of the Casa de Pilatos. The position of the legs and the treatment of the goddess's dress are very similar, and they differ only in the shape of the aegis and the cincture that adjusts the headpiece. The head with the helmet, the arms, the spear and the shield are elements foreign to the Roman original and were probably added after 1571. The monogram "FD" on the right side of the crest of the helmet was interpreted by Ernest Langlotz as the initials of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy [1597-1643], attributing to him the restoration of the torso and the paternity of both the limbs added to this Medici Athena and those of her aforementioned partner. However, Markus Trunk has pointed out that the divergent dates in the history of the collection and the sculptor's biography rule out such an assumption: Duquesnoy was born in 1597 and was never in Seville, the city where this statue had been kept since at least 1571.
As for the dating, it could be placed, like Pallas Pacifera, between the reigns of the emperors Hadrian [117-138 AD] and Antoninus Pius [138-161 AD], due to the stylistic similarity with the garments of the caryatids of the canopy of the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli.
