Eros, Hermes and Aphrodite pinax 490-450 BCE
"Celestial Aphrodite, Paphian queen, dark-eyelashed Goddess, of a lovely mien."
-Orphic Hymn 57 to Chthonian Hermes (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)
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| "Pinax of Eros, Hermes and Aphrodite(?). Found in the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri in the district Mannella. Locri was part of Magna Graecia and is situated on the coast of the Ionian Sea in Calabria in Italy. Museo Nazionale Archeologico at Reggio Di Calabria in Italy". |
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