statue
- Museum number
- 1873,0820.1
- Title
- Object: The Satala Aphrodite
- Description
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Bronze head from a cult statue of Anahita in the guise of Aphrodite or Artemis. The eyes were originally inlaid with either precious stones or a glass paste, and the lips perhaps coated with a copper veneer. The top of the head was damaged during excavation. The thin-walled casting of the bronze head suggests a late Hellenistic date.
- Production date
- 1stC BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 38.10 centimetres
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Width: 29 centimetres
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Depth: 26.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Found with the hand 1876.12-1.1. Rumours thast the body was also discovered but then removed to a secret location are recounted through several letters of the 1870s and 1880s but it has never been located.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001 2 Mar-27 May, London, The British Library, 'Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art'
2012, 26th March-17th July, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Manarat Al Saadiyat, 'Treasures of the British Museum'
2015, 13 Mar-21 Jun, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculptures of the Hellenistic World
2023 4 May - 13 Aug, London, BM, G35, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Acquisition notes
- The head was first acquired in Istanbul by a Greek antiquities dealer called Savas Kougioumtsoglou who passed it to another dealer, Photiades who took it to Rome where it was sold to Castellani.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.1
