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Ancient marble statue fragment depicting a draped figure holding a staff and two smaller figures carved on a vertical slab beside it, with Greek inscription on the base

Aphrodite Marble Statue (2nd–3rd century CE)

Antiquities Europe Rome Sculpture

This fragmentary marble statuette represents Aphrodite, known to the Romans as Venus, in a semi-nude form that remained deeply influential across the ancient Mediterranean.

Ancient seated female figure statue with a headdress, holding an object in her raised right hand

Enthroned Cybele Statuette (c.400-300 BCE)

Antiquities Europe Greece Sculpture

Seated on a throne and holding a feline companion, Cybele appears not as an ordinary woman but as a divine presence marked by authority, protection, and command over the natural world.

Terracotta sculpture of a woman's head wearing an elaborate headdress with detailed facial features

Crowned Figurine (1st to 3rd century CE)

Antiquities Europe Greece Sculpture

The high and elaborate headdress and crown is unlikely to be merely fashionable adornment. It most probably represents a mural crown, the crown of city walls and towers, which in the Greek and Roman world marked a female figure as divine.