Aphrodite From Melos

The finest of all surviving nude female statues (late second century B.C.). It is normally argued that she held her drape with the right hand and rested the left on a pillar at her side; but the old view that she was looking at her reflection in a shield (like her prototype, the so-called Capua Aphrodite) is still attractive. (Venus De Milo) (Boardman, 1986)