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Venus or Aphrodite, or female torso. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Venus Torso
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 111
- Date
- Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx64.002
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure, Human Figure
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Findspot unknown.
- Description
- The nude female had her weight on r. leg, l. leg forward. On outside of r. leg is a trace of an attribute or support. Workmanship is simple but effective. The modeling is somewhat hard, and therefore perhaps Roman but no technical points prove it.
- Condition
White marble, stained.
Base of neck to below knees preserved. Arm missing. Broken and rejoined below waist and at thighs.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.65; W. of neck 0.08; D. at buttocks 0.15.
- Comments
- For close Hellenistic parallel, a Venus Anadyomene, cf. Lullies, Aphrodite, figs. 43-44.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR