Anahit
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Anahit was the goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and water in Armenian mythology. In the early periods, she was the goddess of war. By the 5th century BCE, she was the main deity in Armenia alo
Bronze head of Satala Aphrodite (believed to be Anahit)
Anahit in Stamp of Armenia, 2007
Copy of Satala Aphrodite in History Museum of Armenia
Anahit sculpture by Hagop Ishkanian
Satala Aphrodite
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The Satala Aphrodite is an over-life-sized head of a bronze Hellenistic statue discovered in Satala. Probably created in the 2nd or 1st century BC in Asia Minor, it was acquired by the British Museum
Anahit
…worship included rituals of sacred prostitution, but later Christian writers do not mention such a custom. There is a corona on Venus named after Anahit. Satala Aphrodite Anahita…
The head of the Satala Aphrodite
Roman Asia Minor in the early 1st century AD, with Armenia Minor as a Roman client state. Its two major centres, Satala and Nicopolis are shown.
A close up view
A drawing of the head in the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1875), two years after its acquisition by the British Museum.