Details

Object type

figure

Place Associated

Greece (place of manufacture)

Date

circa 300 BC

Materials

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 220 mm x 91 mm x 43 mm 617 g

Description

Bronze figures of the goddess Aphrodite in this pose are known as Aphrodite Anadyomene (literally rising from the sea). In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was born from sea foam and images of her in this pose, wringing water from her hair, were copied throughout the Greek and Roman worlds. As so many of these follow the same pose, it seems likely that there was an original Greek prototype image produced probably in the 4th century BC which is now lost.

Provenance: Spink and Son; from whom purchased by Sir William Burrell on 3 November 1954.

Credit Line/Donor

Gifted by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944

Collection

Burrell Collection: Graeco-Etruscan Items

ID Number

19.128

Location

Burrell Collection