SculptureGreek2nd-1st century BCE

Lower Half of a Statuette of Aphrodite

133-31 BCE

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Marble from Greek island

Culture

Greek

Period

Hellenistic period, Late

Century

2nd-1st century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

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