Monumentum
Venus pudica of Mérida
The Venus pudica of Merida stands next to the young Amor riding a dolplhin.
Venus pudica of Mérida
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
The New Mithraeum
22 Jan 2022
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Marble statue (H. 1.35), found in 1902. Mus. Merida, Inv. No. 88.
Standing Venus pudica with hanging-down hair. A cloth, draped over her I. arm, covers her r. leg. Beside her I. foot a little Amor on a dolphin; her r. arm, which was raised is broken off; head lost.
Paris in RA XXIV, 1914, 12f, No. 13 and fig. 10; Gomez Moreno, Materiales, Pl. XXIII, fig. 23; Leite de Vasconcellos, Religioes, III, fig. 133; Melida in BAH 1914, 448 No. 5 and Pl. VIII; Lianez, 183f, No. 88 and fig. 62; Pidal, Hist. Esp. II, 432 and fig. 233; Garcia y Bellido, Culto, fig. 16.
Standing Venus pudica with hanging-down hair. A cloth, draped over her I. arm, covers her r. leg. Beside her I. foot a little Amor on a dolphin; her r. arm, which was raised is broken off; head lost.