This small bronze statuette of Venus, dated to the first century A.D., was found in the House of Trebius Valens. Ownership of the house is attributed to Trebius Valens due to the extensive graffiti that decorated the exterior of the house, and which indicated his candidacy for several elected positions.Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, was known also as Aphrodite or Cytherea. She was the daughter of the god Zeus, and the mother of the mortal Aeneas, who was the hero of Virgil’s epic poem, the Aeneid, Julius Caesar traced his lineage to Venus, through Aeneas’ son Ascanius.
