Statue of Aphrodite

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Aphrodite is represented in a crouching position as she squeezes the water out of her hair after her bath. The statue, dated to the 1st century B.C, is a variant of the famous bronze sculpture attributed to the Bithynian sculptor Doidalsas. (3rd Century B.C) In the Cesi Collection - and later on - in the Boncompagni Ludovisi Collection, this Aphrodite, restored in its upper part, was placed next to the boy with a goose in order to create the statuary group of Leda and the Swan.