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Figurine

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Faience figurine of a small man, naked except for a broad collar in low relief. The hair and beard are picked out in black.He is seated with flexed knees on a phallic stump with an elongated phallus falling to his ankles.The figure is pierced through the ears and behind the neck and would probably have been worn around the neck. Such erotica were fairly common in Ptolemaic times.

Present location

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL

Inventory number

1993.75

Dating

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

EROTIC FIGURINE

Material

FAIENCE

Technique

FAYENCE

Height

6.8 cm

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