A Roman marble votive statuette of Artemis of Ephesus Circa 2nd Century A.D., a Roman copy after an archaic Greek original of circa 500 B.C. attributed to Endoios The goddess standing rigidly with arms bent forwards, wearing a long sheath-like dress falling in curved folds at the back with waistband, adorned with a necklet and broad pendant wreath, her front elaborately decorated in relief, the upper body bearing multiple rows of 'breasts' or scrota of sacrificed bulls, a leaping lion on each upper arm, the lower body with panels of rosettes, griffins, bulls and bees (the emblem of Ephesus), with after the antique restorations of the head wearing a mural (city) crown, a disc behind with relief griffins sitting on each shoulder, forearms, lower part of dress with flaring pleated hem and feet; mounted 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) high
A Roman marble votive statuette of Artemis of Ephesus Circa 2nd Century A.D., a Roman copy after an archaic Greek original of circa 500 B.C. attributed to Endoios The goddess standing rigidly with arms bent forwards, wearing a long sheath-like dress falling in curved folds at the back with waistband, adorned with a necklet and broad pendant wreath, her front elaborately decorated in relief, the upper body bearing multiple rows of 'breasts' or scrota of sacrificed bulls, a leaping lion on each upper arm, the lower body with panels of rosettes, griffins, bulls and bees (the emblem of Ephesus), with after the antique restorations of the head wearing a mural (city) crown, a disc behind with relief griffins sitting on each shoulder, forearms, lower part of dress with flaring pleated hem and feet; mounted 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) high
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