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Statue of Aphrodite riding on a goose
Statue of Aphrodite riding on a goose

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 Zeus
350–340 B.C.
Head of Herakles
about 325 B.C. (?)