1779 Statue of Diana of Ephesus, engraving, "Calcografia di Roma"

Statue of Diana of Ephesus or Artemis of Ephesus

Overall 20.5 x 27.7 cm

Rome, 1779.

Published in the rare "Calcografia di Roma" by G. B. Canneti.

Few statues in antiquity were as distinctive as the cult statue of the goddess Artemis, or Diana, as the Romans called her, in her temple at Ephesos in modern-day Turkey. Although the original cult statue does not survive, numerous small-scale replicas do, like this Roman statuette made in the 100s A.D.