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ROMAN LARGE TERRACOTTA APHRODITE GENETRIX Wrapped loosely in a himation; her upraised right hand lifts a corner of it which hangs down the back; on an integrally molded pedestal with a relief of a thiasos, with a satyr and flautist on the front. 1st 1/2 of the 1st Century AD H. 17 7/8 in. (45.5 cm.) > royalathena.com
Greek Hellenistic Period 300–250 B.C.
Greece
DIMENSIONS: Height: 39.4 cm (15 ½ in.)
Painted Terracotta
I love seeing painted figures with pigments that are thousand of years old.
~ Aphrodite. Place of origin: Asia Minor Culture: Greek; Smyrna Date: 300-200 B.C. Medium: Terracotta; gilding
~ Aphrodite. Culture: Greek Date: 199-100 B.C. Medium: Bronze
Statuette of Aphrodite
Bronze and copper.
Roman Provincial.
Imperial Period. 2nd century A.D.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Statuette: Isis-Aphrodite
Greek, Etruscan And Roman
Height: 0.465 m
Paris, Louvre Museum
An incredible example of the Roman depiction of the Egyptian goddess Isis, in the traditional pose of the Roman goddess Aphrodite. Wearing a diaphanous chiton, falling off her left shoulder, while her left arm supports a thick mantle around her waist. The folds of her garments are deep and vivid, with even the openings and button on her right arm clearly depicted.
Rome, ca. 1st century BCE/CE
~ Aphrodite-Isis. Date: A.D. 1st-2nd century Culture: Egypto-Roman Medium: Copper alloy
Greek Marble Torso of Aphrodite
An ancient Hellenistic Greek marble torso of Aphrodite. The nude goddess stands with her weight on her left leg, her garment at her side.
Female figure with showy ornamental headdress, probably depicting Hathor-Aphrodite for domestic worship (terracotta with traces of color, height 18 cm). Roman Period, ca. 30-313 AD. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin.
Isis-aphrodite, ptolemaic Egypt
~ Aphrodite. Culture: Greek Date: 199-100 B.C. Medium: Bronze
ancient perfection...
Aphrodite Leaning On A Pillar
Greek, Etruscan And Roman Antiquities
3rd century BC
Hellenistic period (323-31 BC)
Height: 0.226 m
~ Statuette of Aphrodite. Culture: Greek Place: Eastern Mediterranean Date: first half of 2nd century B.C. Medium: Bronze
Statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene, rising from the sea (faience, infinite blue), possibly from Tebtunis, Faiyum. Ptolemaic Period, late 2nd century BC. Now in the Brooklyn Museum
~ Aphrodite. Place of origin: Asia Minor Culture: Greek; Smyrna Date: 300-200 B.C. Medium: Terracotta; gilding
A Terracotta Figure of Aphrodite Anadyomene (the Aphrodite of Rhodes), Egypt, circa 1st Century B.C.based on a Greek original of circa 100 B.C., kneeling on a high oval base, her head turned to her right, and wringing the sea-foam from her hair with her hands, her wavy hair parted in the center, surmounted by a stephane, and tied in a chignon in back.
Height 9 3/4 in. 24.8 cm.
