CIMRM 784 - Venus. Merida, Spain.

Statue of Venus, supposedly from the Merida Mithraeum.

CIMRM entry

784. Marble statue (H. 1.35), found in 1902. Mus. Merida, Inv. No. 88. Paris in RA XXIV, 1914, 12f, No. 13 and fig. 10; Gomez Moreno, Materiales, Pl. XXIII, fig. 23; Leite de Vasconcellos, Religioes, III, fig. 133; Melida in BAH 1914, 448 No. 5 and Pl. VIII; Lianez, 183f, No. 88 and fig. 62; Pidal, Hist. Esp. II, 432 and fig. 233; Garcia y Bellido, Culto, fig. 16. See fig. 216. Standing Venus pudica with hanging-down hair. A cloth, draped over her I. arm, covers her r. leg. Beside her I. foot a little Amor on a dolphin; her r. arm, which was raised is broken off; head lost.