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NM Ant 2145 :: figurine

Object description: Eros seated on a decorated couch, playing the kithara; on the couch lies a mantle; he leans to the right, towards his instrument; he has long, curly hair and wears a wreath; the wings are curved and uplifted; his feet are posed on a low foot-stool; roughly rectangular base; the back side is unworked and has a circular opening.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 2145

Serie nummer

2246

Object

figurine

Country - Findspot

Turkey : Asia

Place - Findspot

Myrhina

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Acquisition

Originally purchased in Asia Minor in the late 1870s or 1880s by the envoy at Constantinople, Selim v. Ehrenhoff. Acquired by the National Museum from the remains of his collection, then owned by his elderly daughter, princess Cariati, residing in Florence. Gift from countess Siri Oxenstierna in 1942.

Description

Eros seated on a decorated couch, playing the kithara; on the couch lies a mantle; he leans to the right, towards his instrument; he has long, curly hair and wears a wreath; the wings are curved and uplifted; his feet are posed on a low foot-stool; roughly rectangular base; the back side is unworked and has a circular opening.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

60 BC-30 AD

Period

Late Hellenistic-Roman

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current