A Roman Bronze Figure of Aphrodite, Western Levant, circa 2nd Century A.D.

of slender form, standing in a modest attitude with the weight on her left leg, her right foot drawn back, her head turned to her left, her eyes with recessed pupils, her hair divided in the center, bound in a diadem, surmounted by a stephane engraved with scrolling motifs, tied over the nape of the neck, and falling in long strands over her upper back.

European collection, 19th Century (based on the custom-made porphyry base)
French private collection, acquired in the 1980s

Toe of proper left foot and tip of the nose chipped. Surface slightly warn and pitting. One silver inlaid eye remaining. Base made of two separate loose elements held only by a single metal pin. Figure unstable on its base.
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For related examples from the Levantine coast see A. de Ridder, Collection de Clercq, vol. III: Les bronzes, 1905, no. 21, pl. IV, and 32, pl. V.