The oval cameo carved with the frontal head of a child, usually identified as Eros with a top-knot.
The oval cameo carved with the frontal head of a child, usually identified as Eros with a top-knot.
Provenance
European private collection, the cameo mounted in the early 19th century Belgian private collection
Literature
It is possible that such pieces had an amuletic or apotropaic function. For similar, cf. M. Henig, H. Molesworth, The Complete Content Cameos, 2018, pp. 177-9..