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
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=3524
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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