S10.12 APHRODITE "CROUCHING APHRODITE"

Museum Collection: British Museum, London, UK (on loan from Queen Elizabeth II)
Catalogue Number: London GR 1963.10-29.1
Title: "Aphrodite accroupie"
Class: Free-standing statue 
Material: Marble
Height: 1.12 metres
Context: --
Original / Copy: Roman copy of Greek statue after Doedalsas of Bithynia ca 250 BC
Style: Hellenistic
Date: C2nd AD
Period: Imperial Roman

SUMMARY

Aphrodite crouching at her bath, covering her nakedness with enclosing arms.

ARTICLES

Aphrodite

 
 
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