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Head of Eros

Head of Eros

Greek

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.

Terracotta

Hellenistic period

Sculpture