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Agrigento: Hellenistic figurine of Aphrodite (3rd-1st c. BC)



Agrigento: figurine of Aphrodite (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004)


This headless terracotta figurine of Aphrodite was found in the House of Aphrodite in the Hellenistic-Roman settlement at Agrigento. It is classed with the Medici-Capitoline type of Aphrodite figurine. Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, comparable to the Roman Venus.

The figurine dates from the 3rd-1st century BC.

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