Marble Statue of Aphrodite in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008

Marble Statue of Aphrodite
Greek, Hellenistic, 2nd century BC

Accession # 2006.509

The goddess of love stands in an exaggerated hipshot pose. She wears a thin chiton girded just below the breasts, and her himation (cloak), which must have been draped over the missing left arm, falls in thick folds between her legs. This figure is one of the many variants created in the Hellenistic period of a statue type known as the Tiepolo Aphrodite. A major over-life-sized version and numerous statuettes have been found in Athens; many examples also come from the island of Rhodes.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.