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Roman Period
Small sheet gold figures of gods figured as pendants on some Roman jewelry. Particularly flimsy examples might have been only for funerary use.
This childlike figure wears a diadem with a rosette over the forehead. The rosette is decorated with granulation. The figure is pierced from side-to-side.
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Title: Pendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the forehead
Period: Roman Period
Date: A.D. 3rd century perhaps
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: gold
Dimensions: Height: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923
Accession Number: 23.2.54
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