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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 487906, member: 5833&quot;]The putti/geniuses on the base reference various Greek cultural accomplishments: one holds a tablet with the start of the Greek alphabet &amp; is in the posture of a rhetor; the little navigator is seated with an anchor (&amp; the letters DX/number 510 on the stone beneath him?); the little astronomer has a star chart; two are wrestling(?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was coming to this.&nbsp; Looks like Aphrodite/Venus to me as well.&nbsp; Nudity is her primary attribute, and, as 2many just said, she was born of sea foam.&nbsp; I would also like to know what she is holding.&nbsp; If that is a mirror in her right hand, Aphrodite for sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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