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Statue of Aphrodite riding on a goose

about 4th century B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsGreece
Medium/TechniqueMarble, from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
DimensionsOverall: 68.6 × 43.2 × 34.3 cm, 71.21 kg (27 × 17 × 13 1/2 in., 157 lb.)
Mount (metal plate): 28.9 × 27.9 cm, 5.44 kg (11 3/8 × 11 in., 12 lb.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession number03.752
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: From Rome. He cites: Furtwängler, Statue einer Göttin [Bruun-Bruckmann's Denkmâler]: "Formerly in the Somzée Coll - bought in a shop in Rome; found near the Porta San Pancrazio."); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24,1903
Head of a bearded man
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
Head of Aphrodite of the Capitoline type
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
Head of Aphrodite
about A.D. 138–192
Head of Herakles
about 325 B.C. (?)
Goddess, perhaps Athena
4th century B.C.
young female
about 350–325 B.C.
Grave stele with  woman holding a mirror
Late 5th–early 4th century B.C.