APC Image: AK 1070Relief 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.
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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