Sculpture, Museo di Antichita, Turin, Italy
Aphrodite holding Eros, late 4th century BC, from the sanctuary at Ayios Photios, Cyprus, Greece, in the Museo di Antichita, created 1940, housing collections of Greek and Roman antiquities and Turin and Piedmont history, from the House of Savoy, in the Palazzo Reale in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. The statue could represent the Great Goddess of Cyprus in Hellenistic style, wearing a Greek himation or cloak over her chiton, and a diadem decorated with palmettes. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13937709
Media ID
45477217
Size
5786px x 8268px
(7.1MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
