SculptureGreek4th-1st century BCE
Head of Eros
323-31 BCE
Description
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.
Dimensions
4 x 2.4 cm (1 9/16 x 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Edward P. Bliss; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1916.
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