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
