Roman Bone Plaque with Nude Venus   bmac with highly polished surfaces accentuating

with highly polished surfaces accentuating the powerful musculature—from the arms and torso to the thighs and calves—imbuing the piece with both grace and strength

after which their role shifted increasingly toward adornment and expressions of prestige

chisels—the people also skillfully utilized organic materials such as antler

were traditionally worn by men during dances

represents the Kosometsuke (古染付) tradition

Roman Bone Plaque with Nude Venus   bmac with highly polished surfaces accentuatingLate Roman Empire, c. 100300 AD, Egypt An exceptional and rare fragmentary rectangular plaque carved from eliphus (deer or stag bone), depicting a finely rendered nude female figure, possibly Aphrodite Anadyomene or Venus, executed in high relief. Dating to the Roman period, c. 100300 AD, Egypt, the plaque reflects the enduring influence of classical Hellenistic artistic traditions within the cosmopolitan artistic environment of Roman Egypt. The