The birth of Athena by The Phrynos Painter 555 - 550 BCE
"The land circled by the sea [Rhodes], where once the great king of the Gods [Zeus] showered upon the city snowflakes of gold; in the day when the skilled hand of Hephaistos wrought with his craft the axe, bronze-bladed, whence from the cleft summit of her father's brow Athene sprang aloft, and pealed the broad sky her clarion cry of war. And Ouranos (Heaven) trembled to hear, and Mother Gaia (Earth)."
-Pindar, Olympian Ode 7. 33 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.)
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https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K8.10.html
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1867-0508-962
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