Gallery 82-- British Museum
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The entrance to the museum
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Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath Roman, 2nd century AD A version of an original from Hellenistic Greece
In the fourth century BC the sculptor Praxiteles created a life-size naked statue of Aphrodite (Venus). It was placed in a shrine in her temple at Knidos in south-western Asia Minor.
Torturing democracy
Marble statue of a woman seated in a chair East Greek, made about 530-510 BC Found at Didyma, modern Turkey
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