This statuette from Southern Syria represents Venus standing on a rectangular pedestal. She is naked except for a mantle hanging on her left shoulder and descending in vertical folds behind her back. The upper extremities form a right angle at the level of the elbows, and the hands are raised to hold a large wreath above the head. Dimensions are not provided.
Provenance: Ḥōrān.
Material: terracotta.
Era: Roman.
A collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
Bašīr Zuhdī. Maʿraḍ al-ʾĀṯār al-Klasīqīyyā. Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XIX 1969 (pp. 77-83).
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