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Statuette of Aphrodite

about 325–300 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsItaly
Medium/TechniqueMarble, probably from Mount Pentelikon, near Athens
DimensionsOverall: 54.6 x 17.8 x 11.4 cm (21 1/2 x 7 x 4 1/2 in.)
Weight: 10.9 kg (24 lb.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number00.305
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy 1900: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: S. Italy); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, February 1900
Youth
4th century B.C.
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)
Relief with a portrait of Agrippa
about 10 B.C.–A.D. 14
Homer
late 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.
Head of a youth
about 330–320 B.C.
Grave stele of Aristomache
about 330–320 B.C.
Woman from a funerary monument
about 330–325 B.C.
Weeping Siren
about 350–325 B.C.
Head of an athlete pouring oil into his hand
late 2nd century B.C. after a late Classical original of around 360 B.C.