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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 1090 views
Glass perfume bottle
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Colorless with green tinge.Rim folded out, over, and in; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck expanding downward, with slight tooling around base; elongated piriform body with convex sides; concave bottom.Intact; many bubbles; deep weathering and pitting; brilliant iridescence.
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. 5200, p. 509.