Reclining Eros Figurine

Title: Reclining Eros Figurine
Inventory Number: A0084
From Date: -199
To Date: -1
Description: On rectangular base chubby Eros reclining on right elbow with right hand on rabbit. Round face with eyebrows, eyes, nostrils, mouth, and cleft in chin articulated by incision; wreath on head with hair articulated by incisions going from forehead down back of head on either side of wreath, with clumps of hair articulated by irregular incision falling on either side of head. Left arm covered by drapery stretched out and resting on bent left leg; incised lines roughly articulating folds of drapery; some articulation of feathers of left wing. Raised band runs around back of figure under back of wings, possibly meant as drapery.
State of Preservation: Mended from two fragments; all of one wing and most of the other broken off. Surfaces badly worn with no paint preserved; some encrustation on back of base.
Height: 7.33 cm
Length: 8.96 cm
Color: Clay body 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow); incrustation 5YR 6/3 (light reddish brown).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: terracotta
Material: fired clay

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