On the main face a goddess, usually read as Aphrodite rising from the sea, lifts her arms as two attendants on a pebbled shore raise a cloth to veil her. Carved around 460 BCE, probably for a temple of Aphrodite at Locri in southern Italy, the block was found in Rome in 1887. Its subject, purpose and even its authenticity have all been debated.
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On the sides, turned away from the central scene, a nude girl plays the double flute and a veiled woman offers incense. Note how the goddess's wet drapery clings to her body.
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