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Descrizione : 1st-2nd Century A.D. The disc of sheet gold with repouss‚ technique, the bust in high relief showing the draped goddess wearing a stephane decorated with dotted scrolls together with a necklace with triangular pendants and dotted terminals, her wavy hair parted in the middle and drawn back in curling tresses at the sides, her right arm folded across her breast with her right hand outspread save for her third finger which is bent down, a diminutive figure of winged Eros hovering at her right shoulder, all enclosed within a beaded gold wire border, a ribbed suspension loop above with a single gold granule at its base 1.3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high; 1.1/8 in. (3 cm.) diam. NOTES Cf. S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, The British Museum, London, 1997, p. 193, no. 194 for a similar medallion bust of Aphrodite with Eros hovering at her shoulder (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1892.1601); also, F. H. Marshall, op. cit., p. 342, pl. LXVIII, no. 2883 for similar from the Castellani Collection.
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