Eros as a musician
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Eros holding a kithara

Eros as warrior

Classification
sculpture / statue; statuette
Culture
Graeco-Egyptian (culture)
Dimensions
height: 15 cm
Date
late 2nd century B.C.
Period
Ptolemaic period (323–30)
Material
clay
Iconography
Eros; shield; mantle; chiton; ribbon; floral wreath
Production place
Egypt
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)
Inventory
T.488
ID
Hyp-542
Condition
Small part of the back at base and part of the base broken off and lost.
References
Weber 1914, 112 note 21; Oroszlán 1930, 71, no. D 80; Szilágyi, J. Gy. 1981, 26 No. 22/j; Török 1995, 45, no. 36; Török 2005a, 48, no. 13; Török 2005b, 58–59, no. 13

Eros, son of Aphrodite, child god of love, is represented here as a warrior. He stands in a static posture, wearing a short-sleeved chiton, an armour and mantle. The face of the god is delicately modelled. The iconographic origins of the statuette can be found in Alexandrian representations of the fighting Erotes created around the late thrid-early second century B. C.

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