Plate with Adonis, Cupid, and Venus

Photograph from above of a silver plate. At left, a nude male figure leans on his spear and gazes at a topless female figure at right holding leaves in one hand. A nude child also gazes at the female figure. At the man's foot sits a dog. Below the figures' feet, two birds flank a bowl. At right a pillar.

Plate with Adonis, Cupid, and Venus

Medium:
Silver and gold
Dimensions:
Diam. 29 cm
Context:
Artèn, Italy
Date:
Roman, 400– 600 CE
Inventory Number:
inv. 56.348
Lender:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Serge Oboukhoff © BnF-CNRS-Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie, René-Ginouvès