Black Girl Blue World on Instagram: "“Head of a Female Statue” 2nd Century AD, National Archeological Museum of Athens The caption on the museum label: “A marble copy of a gold-and-ivory statue of the Classical period (5th–4th cent. BC). It represents a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite. The colour that has leaked below her eyes is a product of the oxidation of the statue’s bronze eyelashes.” I was on my way out of the museum to catch a flight and tried to rush down this last hallway but she stopped me

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