IT is important to know the facts with regard to the debris found together with the so-called Venus of Milo, as stated by a second eye witness, the Viscount Marcellus. He wrote his reminiscences on the Venus of Milo in a book entitled Souvenirs, and the second edition of this was reviewed by Lenormant. In answer to some objections of the latter the Viscount published “a last word on the Venus of Milo.”[2]
In this he enumerates as follows the objects brought away from the cave where the Venus had been found:
“No. 1. The nude upper part of the statue.
“No. 2. The lower draped portion.
“Yorgos, their original owner ... gave me at the same time three small accessories of the statue found in a field near by.... These were:
“No. 3. The top of the hair commonly called the chignon, etc.
“No. 4. A shapeless and mutilated fore-arm.
“No. 5. Part of a hand holding an apple.
“The last two objects seemed to me to be of the same kind of marble and of a grain near enough like that of the statue, but I could not tell whether they could reasonably be assumed to belong to a Venus whose attitude I no longer remembered....
