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The Venus de Milo was discovered on 8 April 1820 by a Greek farmer on the island of Milos.  Olivier Voutier, a French sailor interested in archaeology, witnessed the discovery and encouraged the farmer to continue digging.  Voutier and the farmer uncovered  two large pieces of the sculpture and a third, smaller piece.  A fragment of an arm, a hand holding an apple, and two herms were also found alongside the statue. Two inscriptions were also apparently found with the Venus. One, transcribed by Dumont D'Urville, a French naval officer who arrived on Milos shortly after the discovery, commemorates a dedication by one Bakchios son of Satios, the assistant gymnasiarch. The other, recorded on a drawing made by Auguste Debay, preserves part of a sculptor's signature.  Both inscriptions are now lost.  Other sculptural fragments found around the same time include a third herm, two further arms, and a foot with sandal.Dumont D'Urville wrote an account of the find.  According to his testimony, the Venus statue was found in a quadrangular niche.  If this findspot were the original context for the Venus, the niche and the gymnasiarch's inscription suggests that the Venus de Milo was installed in the gymnasium of Melos.  An alternative theory proposed by Salomon Reinach is that the findspot was instead the remains of a lime kiln, and that the other fragments had no connection to the Venus; this theory is dismissed by Christofilis Maggidis as having "no factual basis".After stopping in Melos, D'Urville's ship sailed to Constantinople, where he reported the find to the Comte de Marcellus, assistant to Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière, the French ambassador. Rivière agreed that Marcellus should go to Melos to buy the statue.  By the time Marcellus arrived at Melos, the farmer who discovered the statue had already received another offer to buy it, and it had been loaded onto a ship; the French intervened and Marcellus was able to buy the Venus.  It was brought to France, where Louis XVIII had it installed in the Louvre. Contrary to the usual practice at the time, the Venus was not significantly restored but was exhibited in the state in which she was discovered.
herms Olivier Voutier gymnasium lime kiln Louis XVIII Comte de Marcellus Dumont D'Urville niche Salomon Reinach Louvre Milos gymnasiarch Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière Venus