Herma of cupid
White marble, first half of 1st cent. A.D. Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 20361
This sculpture originally stood on a pillar. The eyes, made of glass paste, have been lost. The subject represents one of the multiform aspects of the Dionysian world appearing in garden ornamentation.
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