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Medallion with Aphrodite and Eros, clay, Romania [d/b]

source:
https://www.ziuaconstanta.ro/images/stories/2019/12/ZIUA/carti-online/docs/6-tanagra-callatis-masti-si-figurine-din-atelierele-de-la-mangalia-v-canarache-1969-compressed-watermark-ocr.pdf
[Tanagra figurines from the Callatis Museum]

Aphrodite – On a round applique, the goddess, naked, with a small diadem and with tight hair, from which two long strands hang over her shoulder. The left arm, raised, holds a scepter.
Aphrodite looks in her right, to one side. To the right, above the shoulder, a small Eros, of which only one wing has been preserved.
Clay. traces of white color.
diam. 10 cm

On the cult of Aphrodite at Callatis >> http://revistapeuce.icemtl.ro/wp-content/uploads/03-Radu-Peuce-17-2019-6K_opt.pdf