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8, Four Erotes arranged in a ring. Three are playing musical instruments: pipes, lyre, syrinx; the fourth dances with hands clasped.
- Record Number: 40004681
- Sub-database: Marlborough
- Reference Number: 8
- Period of Original Gem: Renaissance
- Material of Original Gem: Onyx
- Description: Four Erotes arranged in a ring. Three are playing musical instruments: pipes, lyre, syrinx; the fourth dances with hands clasped.
- Last Recorded Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore: 42.1143
- Previous Collections:
- Story-Maskelyne, M.H.: The Marlborough Gems (1870): no. 156
- Boardman, J., Scarisbrick, D., Wagner C., Zwierlein-Diehl, E: The Marlborough Gems (2009): no. 8
- Shape: Cameo
- Size: 11x9
- Comments: Set in a gold ring.
Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/ADDF2D0A-736F-45D6-9D0F-9269E48952A1
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