<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Louvre Museum, Paris, France </Td> </Tr> <P> Aphrodite of Milos (Greek: Αφροδίτη της Μήλου, Aphroditi tis Milou), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture . Initially it was attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles, however from an inscription that was on its plinth, the statue is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch . Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, the statue is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans). It is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) high . Part of an arm and the original plinth were lost following its discovery . It is currently on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris . The statue is named after the Greek island of Milos, where it was discovered . </P> <P> The Aphrodite of Milos is "widely renowned" for the mystery of her missing arms . There is a filled hole below her right breast that originally contained a "metal tenon" that would have supported the separately carved right arm . </P> <P> It is generally asserted that the Aphrodite of Milos was discovered on 8 April 1820 by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas, inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos, the current village of Tripiti, on the island of Milos (also Melos, or Milo) in the Aegean, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire . </P>

Why does the statue of aphrodite have no arms