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Marble portrait of the goddess Artemis in profile, close-up. Ancient Rome #223423589
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Head of Artemis. Material - marble. Roman work of the 2nd c. AD after a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century BC by sculptor Praxiteles. Provenance in 1887 from the collection of Sergey Golitsyn. Collection of the State Hermitage Museum. Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Artemis - in ancient Greek mythology, the eternally young goddess of the hunt, the goddess of fertility, the goddess of female chastity, the patroness of all life on Earth, giving happiness in marriage and help with childbirth, later the goddess of the moon
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