APC Image: AK 0793: 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. 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 |
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