CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

The pose of this Venus finds a close parallel in the so-called Aphrodite Landolina, found in Syracuse and dating to the first half of the 2nd century A.D., which is thought to be a copy of a Hellenistic original (see p. 425 in G. Pugliese Carratelli, ed., The Western Greeks). Of this Venus, N. Bonacasa discusses the "epigrammatic" depiction of the goddess whose selectively-draped garment covers as much as it reveals of her sensuous body (op. cit. p. 426).