Silver pin
From a tomb in Plato’s Academy, Athens. 1st c. BC.
(ΕΑΜ/ΝΑΜ Χρ. 1083)
Eros captures mortals and immortals in the traps of erotic desire. Here, a captive himself, he sits with his gilded wings half-open on a capital with relief foliage and a bee at the back.