CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.

This fragment preserves the heads of two boys, probably erotes, each with a garland in his deeply-drilled hair. The figure to the right holds a piece of drapery, perhaps a garland tie, in his raised hand. For the type compare the example in the National Archeological Museum, Athens, no. 454 in G. Koch and H. Sichtermann, Römische Sarkophage.