La Afrodita de Satala

 

The Satala Aphrodite

Bronze head from a cult statue of Anahita in the guise of Aphrodite or Artemis. The eyes were originally inlaid with either precious stones or a glass paste, and the lips perhaps coated with a copper veneer. The top of the head was damaged during excavation. The thin-walled casting of the bronze head suggests a late Hellenistic date.

Hellenistic, Roman Imperial (?), 1st century BCE, from Satala, Black Sea region, Turkey.

British Museum, London (1873,0820.1)


(Fotografía y texto de Stephen Chapell)

(Wikipedia)