A Bi-colored Marble Torso, possibly Aphrodite, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.

her hair carved from a gray vein in the stone, and flowing in a luxuriant mass of long wavy curls down the back.

Dr. Felix Ronner (1922-1982), Vienna, acquired circa 1965

good and as shown in the catalogue photos---a few scratches and nicks a resinous or plastic material is attached to the edge of the break at bottom to enable the object to stand up (visible in photo)
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For figures of Aphrodite with abundant hair flowing over the upper back see M. Bieber, Ancient Copies: Contributions to the History of Greek and Roman Art, New York, 1977, fig. 226 (Museo Torlonia, Rome), and Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. II, s.v. "Aphrodite," no. 426 (Cabinet des médailles, Paris).

For a biography of Dr. Felix Ronner, who was university professor and Director of the Austrian Geological Research Institute (Geologische Bundesanstalt) see H. W. Flügel, Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft, vol. 76, 1983, pp. 331-333.