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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 817 views
Amphoriskos
Terracotta lamp
Bronze lamp
Lamp in the form of a grotesque head
Lamp nozzle and rim
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 152
The sides are decorated in low relief with pairs of sphinxes, griffins, and sirens. The nozzles have pairs of lions, rams' heads, and birds standing on lotus flowers. (The large fragment with rams' heads and the upper part of the griffins has been lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, L.1974.44.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. Greece and Rome. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 19, p. 34.
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