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Aphrodite
Greek
Hellenistic Period
Medium/Technique
Marble, crystalline, gray, not unlike Thasian
Dimensions
Height: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.4502
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CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 097.
DescriptionThe end of the nose is damaged, and the other surfaces are relatively corroded or pitted, not unpleasingly so. The hair is drawn into a knot at the back and is bound with a fillet, which has been wound twice around it. This head must come from a very small statuette, perhaps representing Aphrodite. There is a certain visual kinship with the Bartlett Aphrodite of the fourth century B.C.
ProvenanceBy 1912: with E. P. Warren; gift of E. P. Warren to MFA, 1913