Berenice Venus or "''The Benghazi Venus''" is an ancient
Cyrenaican Greek marble statue of the goddess of sexuality and erotic love
Venus
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(150–100
BCE). It was found in
Benghazi
Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη (''Berenice'') and ''Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Ghazi ...
,
Libya
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. which may have once marked the location of the legendary
Lake Tritonis {{redirect, Trito, the reconstructed mythological figure, Indo-European cosmogony#First Warrior
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.
The Benghazi Venus
/ref> It is currently located in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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.
References
External links
The Benghazi Venus - Penn Museum
History of Benghazi
Ancient Greek sculptures
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Venus Anadyomenes
Hellenistic sculpture
Marble sculptures in Pennsylvania
2nd-century BC sculptures
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Sculptures of Venus
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