Floating Eros

Classification

statuette

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 17.5 cm

Date

2nd century B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

Eros ; mantle

Production place

Ionia

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.155

ID

Hyp-6773

Condition

Upper part of wings missing, legs broken, restored.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 59, no. C 98; Hermary et al.: Eros, in LIMC III (1986), 859, no. 42, pl. 612; Bencze, HWA 2014 Autumn, fig. 3; Bencze, in Ókor 3 (2014), 96, 98, fig. 3

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.