APC Image: AK 1071: Relief with procession of Erotes. Erotes walk toward the left, the left arm bent at the elbow and the left hand of all figures holding a phiale. In the outstretched right hand the first and the fourth figures carry thymiateria, the others pitchers. The heads are crowned with wreaths. Above the figures is a moulding and below was a narrow base, now largely missing. The back of the block appears to be rough and both ends have anathyrosis. The second fragment, which is broken off at the right end, preserves three and a half winged male figures, very similar to those on the other slab, but somewhat more crowded. They also differ from the former with respect to their hair. All the figures on the second slab have their hair arranged in a bun at the back of the head, as if they were women. They also carry phialai in the left hand. The cenral figure has a thymiaterion in the right hand, the second and fourth carry pitchers. The surface of the marble is badly nicked, as if the blocks had been dragged or rolled on the ground. The highest parts of the reliefs, especially the heads, have suffered most. The blocks were removed from the monument to which they belonged originally, and seem to have been built into the medieval wall of the church of Saint Demetrios Katephores, which used to stand close to the soutwest corner of the Diogeneion, some 150 meters east of the Tower of the Winds. The slabs came originally from the Sanctuary of Eros and Aphrodite. It is probably that the marble frieze, of which they are part, was part of the temenos wall, which existed in Greek and Roman times. The blocks show clearly that another course rested on the top, and the condition of the reliefs indicates that they were in some way protected from above. The lower parts of the figures have suffered more from the weather than the upper parts. Probably the wall was crowned above the frieze with a projecting coping or cornice of some kind. The date of the relief is probably the second half of the fourth century B.C.