The Auxerre Goddess does not have very much room for brains! She has rather beautifully curved eyebrows, and underneath are large almond shaped eyes, with carefully carved upper and lower lids. Her nose is now broken off, and difficult to make out, but reconstructions show that it would have been very long and straight, and somewhat pointed at the end. Her lips are quite full, especially the lower one, and her mouth is drawn upwards slightly at the corners, in what is known as an 'archaic smile'. This was an attempt to give a feeling of life to the figure, which was common in sculptures of the time. It is too small a detail to distinguish on the thermoform. She wears a short, close fitting cape over her shoulders that you can feel that it comes almost to her elbow on the left, and down the length of her arm on the right.