IDENTIFIERS
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id:	67224
accession number:	GR.24.1899

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 18 July 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Wings were originally attached to the back. Eros is often shown as a small chubby child in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. In Egypt he is closely associated with Harpocrates. The youthful version here is more typical of the Greek type of the Hellenistic period, which corresponds to the Ptolemaic period in Egypt.
title:	statuette

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/67224





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: figure

DATING
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creation date:	200 - 30
creation date earliest:	200
creation date latest:	30
culture:	Hellenistic


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.3



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Greek and Roman sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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