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K32.12 EROS CHASING DEER

Eros Chasing Deer | Apulian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catalogue No. New York 96.18.30
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape Lekanis
Painter Attributed to the Group of Bologna 585
Date ca. 340 – 320 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Eros (Love) chases or plays with a pet deer. The god is depicted as a plump, winged boy or perhaps as an androgynous or hermaphroditic figure combining both male and female parts. He wears his hair tied up in a bun and is adorned with a long, double-strung necklace and bracelets. The spotted deer prances in a field of blooming flowers.

ARTICLES

Eros, Hermaphroditos