Figurine

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

Bibliography

• Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 25; pl.27.

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