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Venus de Milo

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Venus de Milo

The armless Greek goddess in the Louvre/Art & Sculpture

The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek marble sculpture believed to depict Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. It was carved between 130 and 100 BCE and was found on the island of Milos in 1820. Both arms were already missing when it was discovered, and their original position remains debated.

Measurements

Height2.04 m
3.4 tenthsIce cream truck lengths
2 trillionGamma ray wavelengths
Width (at shoulders)4.5 tenths m
2 thousandthsHoover Dam heights
1 thousandthsVatican City widths
1.6 hundredthsBasketball court lengths
Depth4 tenths m
4.4 thousandthsFootball field lengths
3.51Popsicle lengths
200,000E. coli bacteria
Estimated mass900 kg
2.5 billionthsMount Everest masses
900,000Paperclips
7.63Dwayne The Rock Johnson weights
Plinth height1.6 tenths m
1.1 tenthsFoosball tables
2.7 hundredthsIce cream truck lengths
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