Priapos standing in graceful pose wearing a heavy cloak which he is pulling up with the right hand to show his naked lower body.
A hole on the belly where a large penis was inserted.
The ithyphallic god of fertility wears a veil surmounted by a modius.
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Rare head of Isis-Demeter showing chubby features, beady eyes and purse lips. A Venus ring along the neck. The Severan style melon hairdo is carefully braided. The goddess is wearing a veil and large earrings.
Over her head the solar disk and a grain ear between two cow’s horns, all emerging from a couple of leafs. These are attributes of Isis-Demeter, the goddess of vegetation and fertility.
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Finely modeled Egyptian terracotta head with caricatural features, the face showing wide open eyes under arched eyebrows, a prominent nose, fleshy lips and protruding ears.
The head is a depiction of an ugly slave and fits into the grotesque tradition of Hellenistic art; the present head however is a Roman imperial development.
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Black-glazed skyphos with delicate lines on the reserved zone above the foot. Added red on the flaring ring foot, the reserved underside with carefully designed concentric circles.
The shape is related to the Samos group; cf. item 973, p. 309 in: H. Payne. Necrocorinthia, A Study of Corinthian Art in the Archaic Period. Oxford, 1931.
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Roman bronze attachment with the winged Eros is holding a phial with both hands to pour out some liquid.
A cloth is wrapped around the god’s belly, the upper end flapping in the wind in front of the wing.
The appliqué was attached to a bronze vessel as discernible from the remains of solder at rear.
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Pale blue Roman glass carafe with rounded body, the glass pinched out around the body to form eight vertical ribs with knobs. The flat base slightly incurved. The tall tubular neck fairly flaring to a plain rim.
Free-blown blue-green glass
H. 11.1 cm (4.4 in)
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Black-glazed vessel with ribbed body. The low pedestal foot with double molding. The vertical handles are combined with flat spurs at top.
For the same shape cf. lot no. 53 in: J. Hayes. Greek and Italian Black-Gloss Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto 1984.
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Archaic naked dwarf standing in squat position and holding his hands in front of his belly. The head with big almond-shaped eyes and nice archaic smile.
This kind of paunchy dwarf figurines is thought to be inspired by the Egyptian Paitakos, the dwarf god patron of children.
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Handmade southern Italic vessel of bag-shaped body and double strap handles.
The top of the rim enhanced with tiny dots, encircled inside and outside by black lines. Panels with red band and four semicircular lines with short vertical strokes at center. Horizontal lines on the handles.
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Bellied body with a sloping shoulder curving up to form a slight neck. Applied red and black decoration below the short flaring rim.
For similar decoration on the belly cf. plate 49 in: Ettore de Juliis. La ceramica geometrica della Peucezia. Rome 1995.
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