A GROUP OF ANCIENT EROTICA
A GROUP OF ANCIENT EROTICA

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 304 B.C.-200 A.D.

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A GROUP OF ANCIENT EROTICA
Ptolemaic Period To Roman Period, Circa 304 B.C.-200 A.D.
Including a Roman bronze complex amulet with male genitalia at the center, a phallus balanced by a fist to the sides, a suspension loop above; seventeen Egyptian erotica of various sizes, shapes and states of preservation, of faience and terracotta; a fragmentary limestone symplegma; a fragmentary Hellenistic marble figure of an crouching Hermaphrodite, with round breast and remnants of male genitalia; an Egyptian terracotta female musician; a fragmentary Egyptian terracotta woman in a bed; an Egyptian faience figure of Baubo; together with twenty modern or heavily restored erotica and symplegmae
15/8in. (4.1cm.) long for the first (43)

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