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  2. Category:Sculptures of Roman goddesses - Wikipedia

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    Sculptures of Roman goddesses. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A. Sculptures of Artemis (15 P) V. Sculptures of Venus ...

  3. Venus Callipyge - Wikipedia

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    The Venus Callipyge, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", [a] is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original.

  4. Venus de Milo - Wikipedia

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    Since the statue's discovery, it has become one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture in the world. The Venus de Milo is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose Roman counterpart was Venus. Made of Parian marble, the statue is larger than life size, standing over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. The statue is ...

  5. List of distinguished Roman women - Wikipedia

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    Valeria, the name of the women of the Valeria gens. Valeria, first priestess of Fortuna Muliebris in 488 BC [1]; Aemilia Tertia (с. 230 – 163 or 162 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus and mother of Cornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War.

  6. Sleeping Hermaphroditus - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Hermaphroditus, The Louvre, Paris. The ancient sculpture was discovered in the first decades of the 17th century—unearthed in the grounds of Santa Maria della Vittoria, near the Baths of Diocletian and within the bounds of the ancient Gardens of Sallust.

  7. Roman sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Allegorical scene from the Augustan Ara Pacis, 13 BCE, a highpoint of the state Greco-Roman style. The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture. Many examples of even the most famous Greek sculptures, such as the Apollo Belvedere and Barberini Faun, are known only from Roman Imperial or Hellenistic "copies".

  8. Ancient statue discovered at Egyptian temple may be rare ...

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    Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...

  9. Capitoline Wolf - Wikipedia

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    Livy reports in his Roman history that a statue was erected at the foot of the Palatine Hill in 295 BC. [7] Pliny the Elder mentions the presence in the Roman Forum of a statue of a she-wolf that was "a miracle proclaimed in bronze nearby, as though she had crossed the Comitium while Attus Navius was taking the omens".

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