Funerary altar of Hipponicus

The funerary altar for the boy Hipponicus, who died at the age of eleven months, features an almost three-dimensional figure of a winged, naked Cupid in a niche above the inscription field. In ancient times, this son of the gods, like the other deities (such as Salus, the goddess of public welfare, a statue of whom was found in Neustadt, Mainz, on the site of the customs harbour), could be depicted in sublime, celestial, supernatural nudity. The childlike nudity creates an association with the deceased, who, according to the inscription by his grieving parents, was "of beautiful figure, comparable to Cupid in face and bearing … as beautiful as Apollo", but "due to the envy of the celestial beings, he ceased to be an object of love".

The tomb found in the inner city of Mainz was built in the second half of the 2nd century AD.  

We often encounter naked figures, Cupids, Erotes, and Puttos in the Renaissance and Baroque.