Head of Aphrodite

This female head has been identified as Aphrodite. But her slightly open mouth and tilted neck need not be erotic, and might be compared to the features of the three figures in the Laocoon group

Number

367

Material

Parian marble

Location of Original

Berlin, Pergamon Museum

Size

0.30m

Accession

Transferred from the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1884 (?)

References

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 359 (n.4), pl. 124.4
Lawrence: Later Greek Sculpture (1927), 28, pl. 44
Winter: Altertümer von Pergamon VII (1908), 117, pls. Vii & XXV
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 94, no.508

Date

c.200 BCE

Provenance

Found in 1879 south east of the Great Altar of Pergamon, in a cistern

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