Eros & the Wooden Cow (original) (raw)

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Eros & Wooden Cow | Greco-Roman mosaic

DETAILS

Museum Collection Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology, Gaziantep
Catalogue No. -
Type Mosaic
Context Zeugma
Date -
Period Imperial Roman

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Eros, the god of love, from a painting depicting the tale of Pasiphae and the wooden cow. The godling is depicted as a winged infant armed with a bow. He pokes the head of the wooden cow with one of his love-arrows, so making the faux-heifer desirable to the bull.

ARTICLES

Eros

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Pasiphae & Wooden Cow

Z45.8 Pasiphae