Erato

3D Image

by Geoffrey Marchal
published on 18 October 2016

Erato, Monte Calvo, 2nd century A.D., marble, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta.
The young woman wears a wreath of flowers in her hair and a large cloak wound around her right side and arm. she plays a kithara or lyre and may be Erato, the Muse of Erotic Poetry.

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References

NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK, accessed 1 Dec 2016.

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