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For a similar example in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford see fig. 56 in Vafopoulou-Richardson, Ancient Greek Terracottas.
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ASIA MINOR, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN TERRACOTTA VENUS
ASIA MINOR, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
Depicting the goddess at her toilette, bejewelled and standing on a high rectangular plinth, with both arms bent and raised, holding a comb in her right hand, a mirror in her left, wearing thick-soled sandals and a long mantle with a broad border draped around her lower body and over her left shoulder, exposing her torso, her center-parted hair arranged in a flat bun (the so-called "Scheitelzopf" hairstyle), a pilaster to her left fronted by a winged Eros, another standing on top of the capital, serving as the support for her left arm, a third standing to her right
22 in. (55.8 cm.) high
ASIA MINOR, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
Depicting the goddess at her toilette, bejewelled and standing on a high rectangular plinth, with both arms bent and raised, holding a comb in her right hand, a mirror in her left, wearing thick-soled sandals and a long mantle with a broad border draped around her lower body and over her left shoulder, exposing her torso, her center-parted hair arranged in a flat bun (the so-called "Scheitelzopf" hairstyle), a pilaster to her left fronted by a winged Eros, another standing on top of the capital, serving as the support for her left arm, a third standing to her right
22 in. (55.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Japanese Private Collection, 1980s.
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