Walters, Henry Beauchamp: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (London, 1899)

STATUETTES OF APHRODITJ5.

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The 1. hand holds an apple, and rests on a steering-oar over which hangs
drapery, the lower part lost.

Ht. 3j in. Towneley Coll. Bernoulli, Aphrodite, p. 333, No. 22; Pottier and Reinach,
Ndcropole de Myrina, i. p. 286, No. 19.

1082. Aphrodite: type as last. She stands on r. foot, and is about to place
r. hand on 1. foot, which is lifted up ; sandal on r. foot. She is nude, with hair
rolled up each side, gathered in a knot at the nape of the neck, and falling in
tresses over the shoulders, armlets, and bracelets ; her 1. arm rests on a plain
column (modern).

Ht. 3J in. Hamilton Coll. Bernoulli, Aphrodite, p. 333, No. 21 ; Pottier and Reinach,
Ndcropole de Myrina, i. p. 286, No. 18.

1083. AphroditA fastening her Sandal. Attitude as the last ; her hair is tied
back at the neck and falls in a club ; she has a stephanb with perforated edge, and
drapery as No. 829, forming a canopy over hcr head. She stands on a helmet.

Ht. 7! in. . Payne Knight Coll. (xc. 3). Vaux', Handbook to Brit. Mus. p. 428 ;
Bernoulli, Aphrodite, p. 333, No. 20 ; Pottier and Reinach, Ndcropole de Myrina, i. p. 286,
No. 17. Roman period.

c. ANADYOMENt ; WRINGING OR KNOTTING UP IIAIR.

1084. Aphrodite Anadyomene. She stands with both hands raised, as if about Plate V.
to place a fillet round her head ; her r. leg is drawn back ; she is nude, and

her hair is waved each side and gathered under a broad fillet into a knot at
the back.

Ht. 10J in. 1865. Pourtales Coll. (Cat. 562). Klein, Praxiteles, pp. 286, 287, figs. 48-50 ;

Mansell, Brit. Mus. Photographs, No. 873 ; Murray, Greek Bronzes, p. 69 ; Reinach, Repertoire,
ii. p. 341, No. 4, p. 343, No. 10 ; Bernoulli, Aphrodite, p. 300, No. 2. Feet and left hand restored.

The attitude seems to suggest that this is a copy from a Praxitelean original; the Pseliumene
(Pliny, H.N. xxxiv. 69) has been proposed by Klein, though it is not as yet certain whether
Praxiteles was the creator of that type.

1085. Aphrodite wringing or knotting up her hair.* Stands on 1. leg, holding up
in 1. hand the handle of a mirror (which is broken off) ; she wears a sphendoni,
and her hair is knotted at the nape of the neck, with curls falling on each
shoulder, one of which she takes in r. hand as if to knot it up.

Ht. 8 in. ; with ancient base (which does not appear to belong), 9J in. From Alexandria.
Bequeathed by Sir W. Temple, 1856. Klein, Praxiteles, p. 286, fig. 47 ; Bernoulli, Aphrcditc,
p. 304, No. 9. The figure has been gilt.

1086. Aphrodite knotting up her hair. She kneels to 1., looking up to r., her 1.
elbow resting on some object; she holds a mass of hair in each hand, which

* Klein (op. cit.) refers tliis statuette to the Pseliumene type, along wilh No. 1084, but the r. hand
undoubtedly holds a lock of hair, not an ornament, and therefore the attribution cannot be nxai.ntained.

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