Pendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the forehead

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A.D. 3rd century perhaps · gold · Egyptian Art

Small sheet gold figures of gods figured as pendants on some Roman jewelry. Particularly flimsy examples might have been only for funerary use. This childlike figure wears a diadem with a rosette over the forehead. The rosette is decorated with granulation. The figure is pierced from side-to-side.

Artist

Unknown

Date

A.D. 3rd century perhaps

Medium

gold

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1923