APC Image: AK 1070: Relief representing a draped woman in profile to the right. She is seated on a rock in which a natural cave is indicated. On the other side is a high projecting rock on top of which are the outlines of the two feet of a small figure. This can only be a child sitting on the left arm of the woman with his feet resting on the rock. In the back of the marble is a dowel hole. The two figures on the relief are probably Aphrodite and Eros, and the rock on which they are sitting with the cave underneath is a convincing representation of the joint shrine of the two deities on the slope of the Acropolis. The relief probably came from the Sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite. Object Description: | | Relief representing a draped woman in profile to the right. She is seated on a rock in which a natural cave is indicated. On the other side is a high projecting rock on top of which are the outlines of the two feet of a small figure. This can only be a child sitting on the left arm of the woman with his feet resting on the rock. In the back of the marble is a dowel hole. The two figures on the relief are probably Aphrodite and Eros, and the rock on which they are sitting with the cave underneath is a convincing representation of the joint shrine of the two deities on the slope of the Acropolis. The relief probably came from the Sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite. | Negative Number: | | AK 1070 | Museum: | | National Archaeological Museum | Museum Inventory Number: | | 3257 | Category: | | Architectural structures and elements | Subcategory: | | Relief | Site: | | Acropolis, North Slope | City: | | Athens | Region: | | Attica | Country: | | Greece | Date: | | 1934 | Format: | | Glass-plate | Dimensions: | | 24 X 18 | Bibliography: | | Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 146, fig. 36. | Repository: | | ASCSA ARCHIVES | Collection Title: | | Archaeological Photographic Collection | Series: | | AK | Image Width: | | 2123 | Image Height: | | 2841 |
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