Sensuous depictions of the goddess Venus, either nude or in various states of undress, owe their ultimate origin to the Knidian Aphrodite by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles from the 4th century B.C. During the subsequent Hellenistic period and continuing into the Roman period, countless variations were created, some as cult statues, some as villa ornament, and others bearing the portraits of prominent imperial women who sought to be equated with the goddess. The pose of this Venus and the treatment of the mantle clenched between her left arm and torso and falling over her right leg finds a close parallel in the so-called Aphrodite from Agen (also known as the Venus de Mas), no. 707 in A. Delivorias, “Aphrodite,” in LIMC, vol. 2. Delivorias (op. cit.) considers this type to be a late Hellenistic creation influenced by the Venus Felix and popular Aphrodite Anadyomene types.