Armed Aphrodite (NAMA 262)

Armed Aphrodite
Greek: Ένοπλη Αφροδίτη
The statue today in the NAMA
Year1st century AD
CatalogueNo 262
MediumMarble
MovementClassical
Subjectthe goddess Aphrodite
Dimensions1.51 m (59 in)
ConditionIntact
LocationNational Archaeological Museum, Athens
OwnerGreece
Websitehttps://www.namuseum.gr/

Armed Aphrodite (Greek: Ένοπλη Αφροδίτη) is a first-century AD Roman marble sculpture depicting Aphrodite Areia, or the war-like aspect of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, who was more commonly worshipped as a goddess of beauty and love. It is modelled after a lost Greek original of the fourth century BC made by Polykleitos the Younger, and is now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens in Greece with accession number 262.

History

The statue was found in ancient Epidaurus, in the sanctuary of Asclepius the year 1886 during excavation works, along with several other sculptures in the site. The statue was eventually transferred to the capital Athens, where it has been displayed ever since in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.[1] The original Greek sculpture, a work of Polykleitos the Younger, would have been produced around the fourth century BC.[2][3]

Description

The goddess stands upright supporting her weight on her right leg, her left one relaxed, with her head turned left and tilted toward the ground.[1] She is dressed in a thin (almost transparent) chiton that embraces her torso so that the finer curves of her body, especially the pubic triangle and the navel, can be admired.[2] The chiton has slipped off her right shoulder, exposing her firm right breast bare. The chiton is then wound around the left arm, and falling off freely at her side.[1]

The goddess's hair is coiffed in very delicate and wavy tresses, and is tied with a ribbon and placed at the back of her head in a pigtail that is wound in a snood.[2] Across her half-exposed half-dressed chest passes the belt of her scabbard diagonally.[2][3] She would have bore a sword on her left hand, but it is unknown what the right one held.[1]

It has been suggested (in particular due to the features of the head) that this statue is not a Roman copy but in fact a Greek original of the Hellenistic era.[1]

Condition

Most of the right arm, the feet and the nose of the statue are missing, while the face is heavily damaged; the left arm and the head were found separately and had to be reattached to the rest of the sculpture.[2] With a height of 1,51 m., this parian-marble sculpture is lifesize.[1]

Aphrodite Areia

In ancient Greek cult and religion, the usually love-associated Aphrodite was sometimes worshipped as a war goddess under the epithet Areia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ἀρεία) or "Aphrodite the Warlike", under which she was depicted in full armor like the war god Ares, her lover. This representation was found in Sparta, Argos, Cythera and Taras (modern Taranto).[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Kavvadias 1890, p. 112–113.
  2. ^ a b c d e Kaltsas 2002, p. 125.
  3. ^ a b Kaltsas 2007, pp. 322–323.
  4. ^ Budin, Stephanie L. (2010). "Aphrodite Enoplion". In Smith, Amy C.; Pickup, Sadie (eds.). Brill's Companion to Aphrodite. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. Boston, MA: Brill Publishers. pp. 79–112. ISBN 9789047444503.

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