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Fragment of ornament from a bowl(?): an Eros-type mask
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Head SM L115, from a photograph taken in 1947. ©A.C. Cooper (colour) Ltd.
Fragment of ornament from a bowl(?): an Eros-type mask
Second century AD or later
Terracotta
Height: 6cm
Width: 6cm
Thickness: 3cm
Width: 6cm
Thickness: 3cm
Museum number: L115
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 489
Not on display
Curatorial note
This Eros-type head wtih stylized curls either side of the face is set against a stylized hair-net type background. The back of the piece is concave and smoothed as if the whole thing might have formed part of the enrichment of a bowl or lamp.
The puffy cheeks and vacant expression of the Eros indicate that this fragment is Alexandrine to Near Eastern work of the Imperial Second Century or later1 .
1 Compare this fragment with Kaufman, Ägyptische Terrakotten, fig. 107.
The puffy cheeks and vacant expression of the Eros indicate that this fragment is Alexandrine to Near Eastern work of the Imperial Second Century or later1 .
1 Compare this fragment with Kaufman, Ägyptische Terrakotten, fig. 107.
Provenance
Unrecorded
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