Fertility
Fertility is a prominent theme in ancient artwork, relating to human procreation as well as ideas of agricultural prosperity and abundance. Such was the importance of success in these areas for ancient societies that whilst images of fruit, plants, or feasts were popular depictions of fertility, it was also common practice to honour and invoke relevant deities through visual art. In Ancient Egypt, this was often done with amulets representing figures such as Bes, the protector of households and families, or Taweret, the zoomorphic goddess of childbirth. In Greece, the most prevalent celebrations of fertility pertained to Dionysus. As the fabled inventor of wine, many drinking or storage vessels used at symposia bore his image, whilst cultic worship often used phallic imagery to celebrate the association with virility. Similarly, in Rome, phallic amulets were used to invoke the god Fascinus and the protective aspects common to fertility deities in order to ward off evil spirits.
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Ancient Roman Bronze Phallic Amulet
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Selection of Tudor Period Silver-Gilt Clothes Fasteners
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Selection of Roman Bronze Phallic Amulets
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Roman Bronze Phallic Amulet
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Selection of Ancient Roman Bronze Phallic Amulets
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Egyptian Faience Macrophallic Figurine
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£ 600.00
Ancient Egyptian Blue Faience Bilateral Plaque with Taweret and Hieroglyphs
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£ 550.00
Large Egyptian Steatite Cowroid Dedicated to Bes
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Amlash Terracotta Steatopygous Figurine
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£ 1,500.00
Syro-Phoenician Shipwreck Terracotta Sculpture of a Birthing Scene
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£ 395.00
Syro-Hittite Clay Fertility Idol
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Mesopotamian Clay Plaque of Fertility Goddess
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£ 2,000.00
Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal of Warrior King and Goddess Ninshubur
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£ 700.00
Ancient Greek Terracotta Statuette of an Actor
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Large Ancient Roman Bronze Phallic Amulet
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£ 675.00
Roman Bronze Phallic Amulet
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Large Roman Bronze Phallic Amulet
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£ 795.00
Elamite Terracotta Plaque of Goddess Isthar
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£ 900.00
Old Babylonian Clay Plaque of Fertility Goddess
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£ 950.00
Syro-Hittite Fertility Goddess Plaque
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£ 600.00
Bes Amulet Dress Pin
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£ 750.00
Mesopotamian Terracotta Votive Figurine
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