High magnification 2D images of traces of polychromy of the Lovatelli Venus 109608

The Lovatelli Venus, named after its discoverer, was unearthed in 1873 in a niche in the peristyle of the House of Diomedes I, 12-17 in Pompeii. The dating of the sculpture goes back to the Julian era. Her hair is gathered into two braids that part from the centre of her forehead to gather into a bun. She wears both a light chiton and a heavy himation that wraps around her hips and coils around her left arm. She holds an apple in her left hand, a clear reference to the Judgment of Paris. Sinuous and nude down to her legs, she displays visible traces of polychromy and holes in her earlobes, which, following the fashion of the time, likely held golden earrings, accompanied by bracelets on her wrists. While the chiton was certainly white, the himation shows large areas of yellow alternating with the green of the peplos. On the left side, the goddess leans against an anthropomorphic-style column decorated on the front with an archaizing idol. 

Portable microscope to acquire high magnification images. Observation at high magnification allows us to document the presence of residual polychromy, to examine the morphology and to extrapolate information about the stratigraphic sequence and the presence of complex mixtures or repainting 

AM7013MZT (R4) (20–200x) by Dino-Lite USB microscope portable microscope was used to acquire images at high magnification

acquisition of an image selecting the desired magnification (50X, 220X)  

Acquisition on contact with the surface

extrapolation of information by image observation