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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 528 views
Miniature glass jar
Glass flask
Glass jar
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Colorless with light green tinge, with same color trail and ribs.Solid rim folded out, over, and in; short, concave neck; sides of body sloping out downward; push-in bottom with prominent pontil scar.Slender trial wound three times around neck; eleven vertical, slightly slanting ribs of varying length on body.Intact; some bubbles; little pitting and weathering.
From Cyprus, said to be from a tomb at Idalion (modern Dali)
Myres, J.L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 5760, p. 512.
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