1916.334: Head of Eros
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.334
- Title
- Head of Eros
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Myrina (Aiolis)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292936
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 4 x 2.4 cm (1 9/16 x 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edward P. Bliss; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1916.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Edward P. Bliss
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.334
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Head of a young boy with curly hair, a chubby face and a heavy wreath with a feather projecting from the center (as Eros of Myrina). Figure broken at neck. (Bottom row, 3rd from left, in photograph)
Traces of iron oxide red.
Verification Level
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