Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This first episode of "Artifact of the Month" explores the so-called Bikini Venus of Pompeii, a statuette showing the love goddess in a revealing golden outfit.

You can see a high-resolution 3-D scan of this statue and many others in my virtual museum. For full access, join the Toldinstone Patreon: patreon.com/toldinstone

Chapters:
0:00 Description
1:02 What's in a bikini?
2:03 Painting statues
2:51 Tracing meaning
3:52 Goddess of beauty
4:17 The Toldinstone Museum