Thursday, 4 February 2016

Goddess head / Melos

Left part of marble disc with relief of the head of a goddess, poss. Aphrodite to whom the disc was dedicated. Found on the island of Melos and considered to be one of the most beautiful marble works of the early Classical period (c.460BC) representative of island art. Info. from, and object now at, the National Archaeological Museum. Athens, Greece.


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