The Lenormant Athena is the name given to a small Greek statuette which was made in the first century CE. The Lenormant Athena was discovered in 1859 near the Pnyx hill in Athens and identified by François Lenormant a year later as a small copy of the Athena Parthenos of Phidias. The 41 cm high pentelic marble sculpture has thus come to be known by his name. The unfinished work is of great art historical significance, since it not only shows us what Phidias' statue looked like, but also the reliefs on her shield and the base on which she stood, which are otherwise only known from literary sources.