Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Information
Amulet representing a man with oversized phallus in blue glazed faience with violet details. The male figure is seated with his huge phallus held upright. There is a suspension loop on the back of the figure. May be earlier in date, perhaps Late Period.
Specifications
- Accession number
- M11528b
- Collection type
- Religion
- Culture
- Ptolemaic
- Place made
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
- Date made
- 332 BC - 30 BC about
- Collector
- Joseph Mayer
- Place collected
- Africa: Northern Africa: Egypt
- Date collected
- 1850 before
- Materials
- Egyptian Faience
- Measurements
- Overall: 19.7 mm x 12.3 mm x 9 mm
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph Mayer
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Joseph Mayer, Donor, Purchased, Donation, Owned until: 1867
- Location
- Item not currently on display
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