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LOT 0996
Romano-British Bronze Priapus Statuette
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (14.1 grams, 40 mm).
Modelled in the round, standing, wearing a paenula, his hands holding up the hem to support a pile of fruits on his erect penis.
ProvenanceFound Lincolnshire, UK.
LiteratureCf. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 136, for type.
FootnotesThis is one of the most characteristic representations of Priapus: standing, with long, smooth hair. With his hands, he raises his tunic, revealing his phallus, a symbol of fertility and good luck, and carries the first fruits of the earth on the hem of his tunic.
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