EditorialA sacrifice to Priapus. A priestess masturbates a term of Priapus, while Mystae or Phalliphoria priests carry phalli, satyrs and fauns play music on horns. Un Sacrifice a Priape. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois dHarcanvilles Monumens du Cult...
EditorialPriapic medal to Valeria Messalina and Emperor Claudius. Rear side of an engraved medal of cornaline showing a snail and seven phalli Priapus with the words Messal Claudi Invicta. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois dHarcanvilles Monumens du Cul...
EditorialBronze amulets of phalli worn on chains to protect men from magic, and as fertility charms for women. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catal...
EditorialBronze votive phalli from Herculaneum: one with phallus and hand making an obscene gesture (making the fig) and one with eagle wings, a lion's feet, and four tintinnabula (bells). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The R...
EditorialA sacrifice to Priapus. A priestess masturbates a term of Priapus, while Mystae or Phalliphoria priests carry phalli, satyrs and fauns play music on horns. Un Sacrifice a Priape. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois dHarcanvilles Monumens du Cult...
EditorialBronze votive phalli from Herculaneum: one with phallus and hand making an obscene gesture (making the fig) and one with eagle wings, a lion's feet, and four tintinnabula (bells). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The R...
EditorialFresco from Gragnano of the flight of Aeneas represented by cynocephali (dogheaded monkeys) with huge phalli. Aeneas carries Anchises and drags along Ascanius in Phrygian cap. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Delvaux from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Nap...
EditorialBronze votive phalli from Herculaneum: one with phallus and hand making an obscene gesture (making the fig) and one with eagle wings, a lion's feet, and four tintinnabula (bells). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The R...
EditorialA sacrifice to Priapus. A priestess masturbates a term of Priapus, while Mystae or Phalliphoria priests carry phalli, satyrs and fauns play music on horns. Un Sacrifice a Priape. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois dHarcanvilles Monumens du Cult...
EditorialPriapic medal to Valeria Messalina and Emperor Claudius. Rear side of an engraved medal of cornaline showing a snail and seven phalli Priapus with the words Messal Claudi Invicta. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois dHarcanvilles Monumens du Cul...
EditorialDionysos sanctuary, Delos. Two monumental phalli with a relief showing Dionysos with Silenos and a Maenad. Inscription says the monuments were donated by Karystios, son of Asbelos. (around 300 BCE).
EditorialBronze amulets of phalli worn on chains to protect men from magic, and as fertility charms for women. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catal...
EditorialBronze votive phalli from Herculaneum: one with phallus and hand making an obscene gesture (making the fig) and one with eagle wings, a lion's feet, and four tintinnabula (bells). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The R...
EditorialFresco from Gragnano of the flight of Aeneas represented by cynocephali (dogheaded monkeys) with huge phalli. Aeneas carries Anchises and drags along Ascanius in Phrygian cap. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Delvaux from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Nap...
EditorialBronze phallic amulet, Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Bronze, W. 2 in. (5.1 cm.), Bronzes, This amulet is of unusual form. Commonly, the phallus, presented in symmetrical double form on amulets, is winged, but the three winged phalli that project f...
EditorialDionysos sanctuary, Delos. Two monumental phalli with a relief showing Dionysos with Silenos and a Maenad. Inscription says the monuments were donated by Karystios, son of Asbelos. (around 300 BCE).
EditorialBronze amulets of phalli worn on chains to protect men from magic, and as fertility charms for women. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catal...
EditorialBronze votive phalli from Herculaneum: one with phallus and hand making an obscene gesture (making the fig) and one with eagle wings, a lion's feet, and four tintinnabula (bells). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The R...
EditorialFresco from Gragnano of the flight of Aeneas represented by cynocephali (dogheaded monkeys) with huge phalli. Aeneas carries Anchises and drags along Ascanius in Phrygian cap. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Delvaux from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Nap...
EditorialBronze phallic amulet, Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Bronze, W. 2 in. (5.1 cm.), Bronzes, This amulet is of unusual form. Commonly, the phallus, presented in symmetrical double form on amulets, is winged, but the three winged phalli that project f...
EditorialBronze amulets of phalli worn on chains to protect men from magic, and as fertility charms for women. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catal...
EditorialBronze votive phalli from Herculaneum: one with phallus and hand making an obscene gesture (making the fig) and one with eagle wings, a lion's feet, and four tintinnabula (bells). Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The R...
EditorialFresco from Gragnano of the flight of Aeneas represented by cynocephali (dogheaded monkeys) with huge phalli. Aeneas carries Anchises and drags along Ascanius in Phrygian cap. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Delvaux from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Nap...
EditorialPhallic figurine, Natufian, c8005-c7996 BC. The natural shape of a calcite cobble has been used to represent the outline of the lovers. Their heads, arms and legs appear as raised areas around which the surface has been picked away with a stone point o...
EditorialDionysos sanctuary, Delos. Two monumental phalli with a relief showing Dionysos with Silenos and a Maenad. Inscription says the monuments were donated by Karystios, son of Asbelos. (around 300 BCE).