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The missing lower portion of this statuette makes it difficult to determine if the woman depicted was clothed. However, her preserved left hand, which pulls back her hair, recalls the gesture of Venus after she emerged newly born from the sea, the subject of a famous Greek sculptural type of the third to second century B.C.
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Title: Faience statuette fragment of Venus
Period: Early Imperial
Date: late 1st century B.C–early 1st century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: faience
Dimensions: h. 5 5/16 in. (13.4 cm)
Classification: Miscellaneous-Faience
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.1662
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