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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 842 views
Stucco relief panel
Stucco mural relief fragment
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 168
The standing figure is identified as the Emperor Antoninus Pius on the basis of his similarity to known portraits. Before him kneels a barbarian suppliant, part of a larger scene whose context is now lost.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. Greece and Rome. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 103, pp. 11, 135.Picón, Carlos A., et al. 2007. Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 448, pp. 383, 493.
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