CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

The subject of Eros playing the lyre was very popular throughout antiquity: this very same composition showing the winged god walking to the right while looking over his shoulder and playing the lyre can be found in a late Hellenistic cameo dating to the 1st Century B.C. in the Content Collection, cf. M. Henig & H. Molesworth, The Complete Content Cameos, Turnhout, 2018, p. 167, no. 163, and another from the same collection but dated to the 2nd-3rd Century A.D., cf. op. cit. no. 164.
The cameo is engraved at the top with EYTYKI, a common good wish meaning 'good luck!', followed by EYMOYCI, a second imperative derived from EYMOYCIA, meaning 'good music'. The cameo is wishing the wearer 'Happiness and Harmony'.