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English: Phallophorous figure
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| Title |
English: Phallophorous figure |
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| Object type | figurine | ||||
| Description |
English: Votive terracotta figurine. Two figures of the god Bes and two men in long robes with the side lock of youth are shown carrying a phallus. Another figure is depicted squatting on top of the back pillar that supports the phallus. This figure is nude and also wears the side lock of youth. It may depict the god Harpocrates. The figure holds a tambourine and wears a necklace. On the shoulder of this figure is a half-crouching figure identified as a monkey. |
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| Date | between 305 BC and 30 BC | ||||
| Medium | terracotta | ||||
| Dimensions | length: 25 cm (9.8 in); height: 40 cm (15.7 in); depth: 12.5 cm (4.9 in) | ||||
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| Current location |
Egypt |
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| Accession number |
F 1975/11.2 |
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| Place of creation | Egypt | ||||
| Place of discovery |
English: Egypt, Lower Egypt, Saqqara, Sacred Animal Necropolis |
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| Object history |
English: Excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) in the Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis, 1971-1972. Allotted by the Egyptian antiquities authorities to the EES in the division of finds. Acquired by the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden from the EES in 1975. |
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English: Egypt Exploration Society, November 1975 |
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| References | (1973). "Excavations in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqâra, 1971-2: Preliminary Report". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59: 11, Plate IX. DOI:10.1177/030751337305900102.; "Observations sur les erotica" in The sacred animal necropolis at North Saqqâra: the southern dependencies of the main temple complex, Memoirs of the Egypt Exploration Society, 50, London: Egypt Exploration Society, pp. 166−170, Pl. 23 | ||||
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| Description | for blunder |
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| Source | for blunder |
| Author | rob koopman from Leiderdorp, netherlands |
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