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TerraCotta Monochrome Pyxis Late Bronze Age 1550-1200BC
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Pre AD 1000 item# 377333
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$900
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Terra-Cotta Monochrome Pyxis, Late Bronze Age 1550-1200 B.C. Decorated painted brown circles around neck and body, two small pierced handles . Late Canaanite, Early Israelite Period. (Time of Moses) This charming pyxis perhaps originally contained cosmetics such as kohl for the eyes. It links us in an intimate way with some ancient lives, otherwise long forgotten. Centuries ago, human hands shaped this vessel, decorated it, filled it with some commodity, sold it, purchased it, used it daily. We have no clue who those individuals were, except that they touched this pyxis. When we place our hands where theirs once rested, we become, if only for a brief moment, part of its history. Remarkable condition, intact with no restoration. This is one of the best examples of this type we have ever seen. Bibliography: Amiran, Ruth, Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land, Rutgers University Press, 1970. Size: 110mm H x 155mm W.
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Very Rare Hellenistic Sculpture of a Pregnant Woman
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Pre AD 1000 item# 264031 (stock# 12241005)
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$1450
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Very Rare Hellenistic Sculpture of a pregnant Lady "Fertility Goddess" 300-100 BC - This superb statue has been, until recently, displayed at The Museum of Biblical Archaelogy, Columbus Ohio. It stands 140mm high (160mm including plexiglass base)and is 45mm wide at the largest section. The staue itself is in magnificent condition and has had no restoration or repair. It appears to be a cast made clay statue with incredible detail. This piece was discovered in Judea, The Holy Land and was most probably a fertility Godess, due to her obvious pregnant state. I have taken a number of photos in different light to try and show the fantastic detail, the colour is a dark rich terracotta.
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Superb Ancient Roman Erotica - Phallic Amulet 100 AD
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Pre AD 1000 item# 754442 (stock# z21)
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$145
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Superb Rare Ancient Roman Erotic Phallus Amulet c100 AD. This is a very well preserved example of this amulet Type. The phallus (or symbolic male genitals) represented masculinity and virility in Ancient Rome. These amulets where worn to ward off evil, increase a soldiers strength in battle and perhaps to titilate a prospective sexual conquest. Many hundreds of different shapes and sizes have been discovered over the last three hundred years. 25mm x 17mm Superb Condition, beautiful deep green patina.
The Phallic ammulet was worn in Ancient Rome to pay homage to a number of different Gods depending upon the wearers desires and background:
Mutinus Mutunus (Greek - Priapus); the Roman God of fertility. Eros; the primordial god of lust, love, and intercourse. Cupid (Latin cupido); the god of erotic love and beauty.
Roman women seeking to bear children invoked these Gods, as well as Roman Men who sought to increase virlity, sexual performance or attraction.
Also in some parts of ancient Rome, people believed that phallic charms and ornaments offered protection against the evil eye.
A phallic charm was called fascinum in Latin, from the verb fascinare (the origin of the English word "to fascinate"), "to cast a spell", such as that of the evil eye.
Belief in the evil eye during antiquity is based on the evidence in ancient sources like Aristophanes, Athenaeus, Plutarch and Heliodorus.
There are also speculations that claim Socrates possessed the evil eye and that his disciples and admirers were fascinated by Socrates' insistently glaring eyes.
His followers were called Blepedaimones, which translates into demon look, not because they were possessors and transmitters of the evil eye, but because they were suspected of being under the hypnotic and dangerous spell of Socrates.
In the Greco-Roman period a scientific explanation of the evil eye was common.
Plutarch explained this scientific explanation explaining that the eyes were the chief, if not sole, source of the deadly rays that were supposed to spring up like poisoned darts from the inner recesses of a person possessing the evil eye.
Plutarch treated the phenomenon of the evil eye as something seemingly inexplicable that is a source of wonder and cause of incredulity.
The belief in the evil eye during antiquity varied from different regions and periods. There were places in which people felt more conscious of the danger of the evil eye.
In the Roman days not only were individual considered to posses the power of the evil eye but whole tribes, especially those of Pontus and Scythia, were believed to be transmitters of the evil eye.
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