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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 820 views
Glass dish
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Colorless with faint yellow green tinge.Tubular, flaring rim, folded out and down, with almost horizontal inner shoulder; S-shaped side to body, curving in to integral tubular base ring; slightly concave bottom, thicknened at center with small pontil scar.Broken and repaired, cracked on one side and a large hole in the other; pinprick bubbles; pitting, iridescent weathering, and some limy encrustation around rim.
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. 5593, p. 510.
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