Illustration
Artemis was the goddess of the moon, forest, and hunting. She stands on her left leg while her right arm rests on a pillar. The left hand rests on the waist and its palm is facing outward. Her head would have carried a diadem. She wears two snake-like armlets. The boots leave the toes exposed. Her clothes are rather stiff, especially at the hips. This statue is regarded as being not a good specimen of its kind. Marble. Roman Period, 2nd to 3rd century CE, copy of a Hellenistic original dating to the 4th century BCE. From Mytilene, Lesbos, in modern-day Greece. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).
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