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A Roman Marble Figure of Aphrodite Anadyomene, circa 1st Century A.D.
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- A Roman Marble Figure of Aphrodite Anadyomene
- Height 14 1/2 in. 36.8 cm.
after a Greek original of the 4th Century B.C., the goddess standing on a circular base with her weight on the left leg and raising her hands to rinse the sea-foam from her centrally parted hair, and wearing a himation bound at the hips and falling in long folds down to her feet.
Provenance
Papa George's Store, Antoine G. Shamiyeh, Baalbek, Lebanon, April 1956