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Fine Imperial Roman Praxitelean Marble Statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene, ca. late 2nd to early 3rd centuries A.D. After a Hellenistic Greek prototype, this charming statuette of Aphrodite, the Goddess of sensual love and beauty, is representative of a genre of nude representations based on the late classical Greek prototype of the Aphrodite of Knidos, by the celebrated sculptor Praxiteles