Pendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the forehead

Pendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the forehead

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small sheet gold figures of gods figured as pendants on some Roman jewelry. Particularly flimsy examples might have been only for funerary use. This childlike figure wears a diadem with a rosette over the forehead. The rosette is decorated with granulation. The figure is pierced from side-to-side.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the foreheadPendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the foreheadPendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the foreheadPendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the foreheadPendant: Eros (?) wearing diadem with rosette over the forehead

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.