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1839-1613, PHRYNE [BUST OF THE FAMOUS HETAERA]

  • Reference Number: 1839-1613
  • Description: PHRYNE [BUST OF THE FAMOUS HETAERA]
  • Inscription Greek: ΦΡΥΝΕ
  • Current Collection: Christie's, London
  • Previous Collections:
    • Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833)
    • Daktyliothek Poniatowski 1832, Antikensammlung Berlin
  • Material: Cornelian
  • Comments: A copy of the Colonna Venus (?), which is an ancient replica of the Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles, which Phryne is thought to have modeled for.
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