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Agora Object: S 473

Inventory Number:		S 473
Section Number:		Β 571
Title:		Group of Aphrodite and Eros
Category:		Sculpture
Description:		Missing, the head of Aphrodite, her right arm from above the elbow, her left forearm (doweled on, dowel in place), and fragments of her drapery. The upper right arm was found broken off. The free-hanging drapery on the right side has been repaired from many pieces. The folds of the cloak are chipped across the front, and at the left knee. The toes of the right foot, with the fragment of the plinth below them, have been broken off and repaired. The fresh dowel hole in the neck dates from an attempt to attach the head, S 476 (B 609). Missing of Eros who was seated on her shoulder: all the body above the waist, except the lower right arm; and most of the right leg. The figure of Aphrodite, slightly under life-size, stands with the weight on her right foot, the left foot free, the body showing a marked double curve. Her left arm rests on a roughly indicated tree-trunk. On her left arm and shoulder, thus supported, perches in a reclining position a small plump childish figure, naked, his right leg bent under him, his left knee raised, his right hand resting on her shoulder. Aphrodite wears a thin clinging chiton, girt with a cord below the breasts and around the shoulders, a simplified version of late fifth to early fourth century costume, similar to that worn by the Themis from Rhamnous. Contrasting with this is a heavy voluminous mantle, which falls over her left arm and shoulder, in part concealing the tree-trunk, envelops her back, and appears to have been held high over her right shoulder by the missing right hand. From this point the cloak falls behind her right arm, and is swung across her hips in front. At the front, this elaborate drapery shows the free use of a running drill, and of a heavy rasp; at the back it is worked in shallow folds, hardly more than blocked out. The flesh surfaces are chiseled smooth; as preserved at present they show no evidence of a polished finish. Pentelic marble.
Context:		Built into heavy Roman wall.
Notebook Page:		633-635
Negatives:		Leica, 4-165, 4-179, 4-238, 4-242, 4-243, 4-244, 4-162, 4-163, 4-302, 4-302, 4-303, 4-304, 4-305, color slide
Dimensions:		H. (over all, to top of drapery as preserved above right shoulder) 1.295, (to back of neck) 1.23, (plinth) 0.055; W. (over all at shoulders) 0.66
Material:		Marble (Pentelic)
Date:		12 April 1934
Section:		Β
Grid:		Β:21/ΛΓ
Bibliography:		Hesperia 85 (2016), p. 583, n. 12; p. 614, n. 79.
		Museum Guide (2014), pp. 42-43.
		Hesperia 81 (2012), p. 298-302, 308, 310-312, 315, 317, 319-320, no. 6, n. 87, figs. 29-30.
		Hesperia 81 (2012), pp. 300-301, figs. 29-30.
		Guide (1990), pp. 199-200.
		Guide (1976), p. 193.
		AntP 8 (1968), p. 26.
		Guide (1962), p. 127.
		Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 168, n. 1.
		ILN (2 June 1934).
References:		Publications (4) Images (29) Notebook: Β-4 Notebook: Β-6 Notebook: Κ-26 Notebook Pages (6) Card: S 473 Card: S 473