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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1935.35.39
Title
Eros Playing a Lyre
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
statuette, sculpture
Date
late 4th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, South Italy
Period
Classical period, Late, to Early Hellenistic
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292086

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta with traces of red, blue, and white paint
Dimensions
greatest dimen.: 9.6 x 6 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ionides Collection, London (by 1913). Miss Bettina J. Kahnweiler, Cambridge, MA (by 1935, gift: to the Fogg Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Miss Bettina J. Kahnweiler
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
1935.35.39
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The figure is winged, nude, and rotund.

Publication History

  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), Artemis (Zürich, Switzerland, 1999), Eros 676a.

Verification Level

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