Esquiline Venus
Roman copy of the 1st century AD after a Greek original from the first century BC. Discovered in the Horti Lamiani on the Esquiline Hill in Rome.
The sculpture is thought to have been based on an original Hellenistic statue from the Ptolemaic Kingdom. It is also a possible depiction of the Ptolemaic ruler Cleopatra VII.
- Capitoline Museums, Rome.
























