The "Venus" of Meroe, National Museum of Sudan, Khartoum, Sudan, North-East Africa

This stunning statue is from one of the palaces (M 295) excavated in the 'royal city' of Meroe. Life-sized, carved from a sandstone block then covered with red pigments, it represents a naked woman raising one arm. The eyes were inlaid with plaster and glass paste, so it probably dates from the 1st century CE

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