Hephaistos was the only Olympian god who worked. According to a passage in the Iliad, Hephaistos fashioned his own strong and intelligent, female assistants out of gold, and build the palaces of the gods. Hephaistos was often represented as a craftsman, as in this fronze figure, wearing a pointed cap (pilos) and a short tunic off one shoulder (exomis.)

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Scanned : Photogrammetry (Processed using Agisoft PhotoScan)