A Proto-Bactrian grey basalt lingam and white limestone yoni

LATE 3RD/EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A Proto-Bactrian grey basalt lingam and white limestone yoni
Late 3rd/early 2nd millennium B.C.
The tall tapering 'phallus' grooved and slightly scooped at the wider end and ridged at the narrower end, the yoni shaped like a seed bag with a depressed 'handle'
Lingam 4 ft 1½ in. (1 m 26 cm.) high; yoni 13 in. (33 cm.) wide max. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. M-H. Pottier, Matériel funéraire de la Bactriane méridonale de L'Âge du Bronze, Mémoire, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 36, p. 16, pl. V, nos 34-5 for two virtually identical lingams called "masses d'arme", and p. 43, pl. XXXV, nos 292-3 for similar yoni; also, E. F. Schmidt, Tepe Hissar Excavations 1931, The Museum Journal, XXIII, no. 4, 1933, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, pl. CXXXVI.

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