Statue of Venus ("Braschi Aphrodite")

From Portus. Bought in Rome in Palazzo Braschi in 1811. Purchased in 1884 from Geiler in Munich
Date: late first century BC. H. 1.52 without and 1.74 with plinth.

A copy of the Venus of Knidos by Praxiteles.

Furtwängler 1910, 266-269, nr. 258 (with the provenance). Arachne 12538. Photo: Wikimedia, Bibi Saint-Pol. Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge info..