Still relevant after all these years.
Thank you everyone. If it’s just braided hair, it will be harder to figure out who this is. The gods and goddesses had attributes (symbols) for us mere mortals to figure out who was who.
Aphrodite/Venus both appear to have the (braided hair?) and water urns. Here is Venus.
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That’s a good way to get some poor water innocent water nymph cursed by Aphrodite in an unspeakable manner.
Why does it have to be some super-natural type of being at all? It’s not like she’s performing some amazing feat or exhibiting some great power.
Why not just: It’s a statue of a beautiful naked young woman.
There are more pictures including one from a 45 degree camera angle, over here:
Closeup profile:
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Why Aphrodite? Here’s a quote Google-translated from Turkish:
“One of the reasons we call the water fairy is that it is found in the area we call the pool. And the part in the pedestal you saw was a second reason. It was also a layer of water. But after the Aphrodite, where we saw 20 examples of this statue in coastal cities, we clearly understood that we needed to think more towards Aphrodite.”
When 1800 years old you reach, look so good you will not.