This 2nd or 1st century BC Hellenistic life-size sculpture in marble of Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, fertility and prosperity whom the Romans had adapted from the myths and iconography of the Greek counterpart Aphrodite. It is a remaking of the famous statue of Aphrodite made in the 4th century BC by the renowned Greek sculptor Praxiteles. He was the first to sculpt a life-size statue of the nude female form. This statue depicts Venus emerging from her bath and is often referred to as a Venus Pudica (???odest Venus?? because of her modest pose. It is known as the Capitoline Venus to distinguish it from the many other versions and variants of Praxiteles's Aphrodite which exist. The original, known as the ???phrodite of Knidos?? was made for the sanctuary of the goddess, but has not survived.