Cast Gallery catalogue number: B113

Head of Aphrodite, from a statue.

• Plaster cast: Height: 43cm.
• Copy of a marble head.
• The head:
  • is a Greek original of the late 4th century BC.
  • was found at Palaiokastro on Chios by Antionios Xanthakes during the Crimean War (1854-1856).
  • was purchased from his family by E.P. Warren in 1900.
  • is now in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. 10.70.