A Roman Marble Figure of Aphrodite, Asia Minor, 2nd/3rd Century A.D.

standing on a profiled base with the weight on her left leg, holding an apple in her extended left hand, and lifting her himation with her raised right hand, and wearing a long close-fitting chiton tied with a belt at the waist, her head turned to her left, her hair parted in the center, surmounted by a crescentic diadem, and falling in long tresses over the shoulders and nape of the neck, a striding figure of Eros by her side.

Mussienko Family Collection, Maryland, collected in the 1970s

good, surface worn, perhaps due in part to modern cleaning, large chip on nose of Eros, small chip on nose of Aphrodite, minor chips elsewhere
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For closely related late Roman statuettes of Aphrodite of the Louvre/Naples type from Asia Minor see A. Filges, "Marmorstatuetten aus Kleinasien: zu Ikonographie, Funktion und Produktion antoninischer, severischer und späterer Idealplastik," Istanbuler Mitteilungen, vol. 49, 1999, p. 427, fig. 2 and pls. 34,2 - 35,4: three are in the Antalya Museum, one in the Side Museum, and one was on the market in 1995 (Galerie G. Puhze, Freiburg, Kunst der Antike, Katalog 11, 1995, p. 5, no. 28).