Statuette
MS4025
From: Italy | Rome (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4025 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Greek |
| Provenience | Italy | Rome (uncertain) |
| Period | Late Hellenistic Period | Early Imperial Roman Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Marble (Stone) |
| Technique | Carved |
| Iconography | Woman | Aphrodite |
| Description | Female statuette: Aphrodite.Standing draped female in a frontal position in controposto pose with her weight on her right leg and the left leg bent at the knee and pulled back. This voluptuous female with her left arm raised adjusting or holding her himation and wearing a chiton, bound by a cord, which slips off her right shoulder is an active young goddess like Aphrodite or Artemis (Romano, 2006). |
| Height | 40.6 cm |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Depth | 10.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Museum Purchase; subscription Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1901 |
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