Terracotta head of Aphrodite, half-life size. From the well by the Southeast Building, Corinth.
Greek work, Hellenistic period, ca 300 BCE
Arch. Museum of Corinth, Greece
“Bits of the gilding still adhere to the hair; the flesh parts were covered with a fine, heavy white slip. The head is very similar to that of a figurine found at Delphi.”