Eros wearing a mask
Two-layer onyx. Alexandria, 1st century BCE.
1.3 × 1.0 cm. Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum

Eros wearing a mask.

Two-layer onyx. Alexandria, 1st century BCE.
1.3 × 1.0 cm.

Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).

Credits:
© 1994 Photo, text: O. Neverov, Antichnye kamei, “Iskusstvo-SPB”, SPb, 1994. S. 104—105, cat. 40.
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