CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

The goddess is depicted nude and seemingly once had both arms raised with her hands perhaps ringing out her hair, thus suggesting that this torso is a variant of the Aphrodite Anadyomene (“rising from the sea”). For a similar but more complete example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see p. 178 in C. Kondoleon and P. Segal, Aphrodite and the Gods of Love.