| ID | 201 |
|---|---|
| Images | No image in database |
| Grid Ref | NX9681 |
| Project type | Excavation |
| County | Dumfries and Galloway |
| County Previously | Dumfriesshire |
| Site | Carzield |
| Site Type | Military |
| Location Type | Barracks |
| Context | Furnace pit |
| Context Quality | 3 |
| Site Date | C2 |
| Object Period | 0 |
| Material | Bronze |
| Other finds from site | 199 and 200, Antonine pottery |
| Import | Yes |
| Place of manufacture | Gaul? |
| Location | Burgh Museum, Dumfries |
| Ref No | 1952/25/3A |
| M/F | Male |
| Form | Figurine |
| Type | Deity |
| Name | Priapus |
| Bearded | Yes |
| Standing/Seated | Standing |
| Attributes | Yes |
| Attribute description | Fruit, ithyphallic |
| Clothed | Yes |
| Clothing description | Loose garment with hood and full skirt |
| Drapery | No |
| Condition | Poor. Weathered and little detail remains |
| Classical | 1 |
| Photo | Yes |
| Illustration | No |
| Height | 8.00 |
| Length | 0.00 |
| References | Truckell 1969, 108-9, pl XI; Hutchinson 1986, 214, Me-21 [Link to Bibliography] |
| Description | He stands frontally, draped in a loose garment with hood, long baggy sleeves, and full shirt. At the front he catches up his shirt with both hands to display his stiffly erect phallus and the collection of roundish fruits heaped within the folds. Priapus' body is supported by a thin, straight shaft, terminating in a diminutive flat 'foot'; this schematic detail, which the artist has supplied in lieu of human legs, recalls the ithyphallic herms from which Priapi were in part derived (Hutchinson). |
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