Trophy

Click here to see the goddess Nikê ('Victory') making a trophy. She has dressed the tree-stump in a breastplate with a sword and spear.  Nikê is boring a hole in the stump so that she can attach the helmet with a nail.  A shield with an atropaic eye1 is leaning against the stump.


Note

1. This threatening eye is a psychological device to turn back (= 'atropaic') the enemy  in fear.
 



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