131, A tall winged male, one hand before his face, the other apparently holding back a smaller naked male behind him. Before the main figure a bearded naked man seated on a pillar is hammering at a helmet? on a wreathed anvil. Ground line. The style is late Hellenistic but the subject obscure. The main figure should be Eros; the hammerer perhaps Hephaistos fashioning armour; the third figure an unknown, reduced Eros?.
- Reference Number: 131
- Description: A tall winged male, one hand before his face, the other apparently holding back a smaller naked male behind him. Before the main figure a bearded naked man seated on a pillar is hammering at a helmet? on a wreathed anvil. Ground line. The style is late Hellenistic but the subject obscure. The main figure should be Eros; the hammerer perhaps Hephaistos fashioning armour; the third figure an unknown, reduced Eros?.
- Current Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
- Previous Collections:
- Story-Maskelyne, M.H.: The Marlborough Gems (1870)
- Boardman, J., Scarisbrick, D., Wagner C., Zwierlein-Diehl, E: The Marlborough Gems (2009)
- Material: Quartz
- Comments: Backed with gold.
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