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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.73)

Her breasts and vulva unabashedly exposed, this mid-seventh-century B.C. Greek ivory—most likely Aphrodite, goddess of love—recalls Near Eastern depictions of the divine, naked female form. Her headless female companion may be Helen of Troy, seductively loosening her garments.