Torso of a statue of Aphrodite

Found in Athens. The goddess is depicted nude from the waist up. The lower part of her body will have been wrapped in a himation, the edge of which is preserved folded over her left arm. The lower part of the body and the arms were made of separate pieces of marble. Late Hellenistic copy of an original thought to have been an early work by Praxiteles, carved about 360 BC, and known as the Arles Aphrodite after the best-preserved copy.该雕像出土于雅典。雕像中的女神上身裸露，下身曾被希顿（himation）包裹，衣边褶皱留存至今，搭于左臂之上。其下身与双臂均由独立的大理石块雕刻而成。此件为希腊化晚期复制品，其原作被认定为雕塑家普拉克西特列斯（Praxiteles）约公元前360年的早期作品；因保存最完好的复制品出土于阿尔勒，该原作亦被称为《阿尔勒阿佛洛狄忒（Arles Aphrodite）》。