A Marble Figure of a Goddess, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.

standing on a circular molded base with the weight on her left leg, and wearing sandals, pleated chiton falling to her feet in long deeply carved folds, and enveloping himation held in her right hand and draped over the left forearm, her centrally parted wavy hair bound in a chignon at the back and surmounted by a crescentic diadem, curls escaping before the ears.

French private collection, early 20th Century
English art market, acquired at a provincial auction in France circa 2005
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York

Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, Art of the Ancient World, no. 84, vol. XVII, January 2007, no. 15, illus.

repaired across body with a few inches missing between the two fragments, repaired across both arms, areas of restoration along the joins, surface more weathered on head and upper body than on lower body, right hand holding drapery extensively weathered, upper lip, nose, and top of diadem on proper left side restored, large break off back of base and bottom of garment
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For a closely related example from the Giustiniani Collection see the engravings in Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, 1640, pl. 75 (C.-O.-F.-J.-B. Comte de Clarac, Musée de Sculpture antique et moderne, vol. III, Paris, 1850, no. 976b, pl. 498f, S. Reinach, Répertoire de la sculpture grecque et romaine, vol. I, 3rd ed., Paris, 1916, p. 259, no. 5., G. Fusconi, I Giustiniani e l'antico, Rome, 2001, p. 536), and the photograph in the online database of the University of Cologne: Arachne. Forschungsarchiv für antiker Plastik, no. 18093.