Cast Gallery catalogue number: B148

Aphrodite, semi-draped, with her left foot resting on a step now missing. Her left hand may have held an apple and rested on a pillar to her left. Her right arm crossed her body, and perhaps supported the drapery at the left thigh. She was found with an inscribed base, the translation of which is;
[Alex?]andros son of Menides from Antioch-on-the-Meander made it.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.16m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Aphrodite of Melos or Venus de Milo.
  • is an original of the 2nd century BC.
  • was found on Melos (an island in the south Aegean) in 1820.
  • is now in Paris, Musée du Louvre, 399.