APC Image: AK 0793Late ceramic/terracotta objects from the Sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite. Top: small flask with two perforated lugs. The reverse side of AK 0791 (right). Depicts a man seated sideways on an ass or a horse. Bottom: Upper half of a mould for a Christian lamp, with a cross on the discus and alternating triangles and heart-shaped leaves on the rim. Left: late Roman lamp found near the opening to the underground passage. On the discus is a rosette and on the rim are two parallel grooves. Right: late Roman lamp found together with the preceding. On the discus is the figure of Eros (to the left) blowing a double flute. In front is an altar beside which a goat is lying. On the reverse is the signature EY. The date of the two lamps is the 4th century A.D.
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Object Description:   Late ceramic/terracotta objects from the Sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite. Top: small flask with two perforated lugs. The reverse side of AK 0791 (right). Depicts a man seated sideways on an ass or a horse. Bottom: Upper half of a mould for a Christian lamp, with a cross on the discus and alternating triangles and heart-shaped leaves on the rim. Left: late Roman lamp found near the opening to the underground passage. On the discus is a rosette and on the rim are two parallel grooves. Right: late Roman lamp found together with the preceding. On the discus is the figure of Eros (to the left) blowing a double flute. In front is an altar beside which a goat is lying. On the reverse is the signature EY. The date of the two lamps is the 4th century A.D.
Negative Number:   AK 0793
Category:   Miscellaneous
Monument:   Sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite
Site:   Acropolis, North Slope
City:   Athens
Region:   Attica
Country:   Greece
Format:   Glass-plate
Dimensions:   18 X 13
Bibliography:   Hesperia 1(1932), pp. 48, 49, figs. 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4.
Repository:   ASCSA ARCHIVES
Collection Title:   Archaeological Photographic Collection
Series:   AK
Image Width:   1529
Image Height:   2140