From its style and form, this statue of Aphrodite take its name from a cult statue of Venus Genetrix ("mother") commissioned by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. He claimed her as the divine ancestor of the Romans and built a temple to the goddess in Rome. The deep-folded garment clings to the body of the goddess of love: her weight on her left leg and one breast exposed. This type traces its forms to an earlier Greek statue of Aphrodite dating to the late 5th century BC that is often attributed to the Greek sculptor Kallimachos. In antiquity, other examples were rendered in bronze, marble, and, like this figure, terracotta.