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The temple of Aphrodite on Cyprus (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Cult of Ištar 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.02 Cult of Ištar Statues of gods 06 Visual arts and architecture 06.03 Sculpture 06.03.06 Sculpture in round 06.03.06.02 Statues of gods	Keywords Aphrodite temples
Period 2nd century CE Roman Empire	Channel Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

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Pausanias 3.23.1:
The sanctuary of Aphrodite Urania [in Cythera] is most holy, and it is the most ancient of all the sanctuaries of Aphrodite among the Greeks. The goddess herself is represented by an armed image of wood.

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Pausanias 3.23.1

Bibliography

Jones and Ormerod 1960, II 144-145

Jones, W. H. S. and H. A. Ormerod. Pausanias, Description of Greece. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus

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