treasure find from Palaiokastron - appliqué in the shape of an eros with cithara and plectrum, gold, chased, gold, total: height: 1.8 cm; width: 1.85 cm; weight: 0.74 g, body jewelry, vestment jewelry, history of Cupid, Cupid (Eros), cithara, mandolin, guitar, balalaika, musical instruments, early Hellenistic, high Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, The appliqué with eyelets - two are still preserved - on a robe or tiara shows a naked Eros extending to the right. With his head turned to the side, he holds a cithara in his left hand and a plectrum for striking the strings in his right hand. It probably formed a unit together with the Eros Inv. 1917.202, 1917.207 and 1925.178. The motif of the theater-playing and farcical Erots was popular in Hellenism and can also be traced in Roman art.
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