Bronze statuette of winged Eros – Aspects of Beauty

From Athens (part of the “Ampelokipοi Ηoard”). 1st c. BC.-1st c. AD. Work influenced by a creation of the 3rd–2nd c. BC.
(ΕΑΜ/ΝΑΜ Χ 16771)

Eros is depicted as a chubby child. He wears an ivy wreath and possibly holds a tuning hammer or plectrum in the right hand, while in the left one he would have held a guitar or a lyre. The inlaid eyes are of glass paste. Probably intended for the decoration of banquet rooms of a Roman villa.