Aphrodite/Venus with gold jewelry

This bronze statuette depicts Aphrodite/Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. Because Venus was associated with beauty, she is posed as if arranging her hair. Her ears are pierced, and she is depicted wearing jewelry (which is perhaps not ancient) made from gold and pearls.

Sources:
- Wendy Closterman, label text, Glencairn Museum, Rome and Early Christianity Gallery
- David Gilman Romano and Irene Romano, _Catalogue of the Classical Collections of the Glencairn Museum_, 1999, 53-54.