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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | MF 2530 | | Title: | | BRONZE PHALLIC AMULET | | Category Code: | | MF | | Object Number: | | 2530 | | Description: | | Bronze phallic amulet with a loop on top for suspension. Such amulets were not uncommon in the Roman period: cf. Furtwangler, Olympia, IV, p. XIII, 33; Bonner Jahrbucher, LXXXVII, 1889, p. 23, pl. III, 27. For a bronze statuette of a boy wearing such an amulet, see Bieber, Antike Skulpturen und Bronzen in Cassel, No. 214. | | Material: | | Bronze | | Condition: | | Missing parts. One end broken off. | | Period: | | Roman | | Chronology: | | according to Corinth 12 | | Area: | | Hellenistic Villa | | Context: | | NB97 P46 | | Findspot Description: | | Found near MF-2523 at the north end of Hellenistic Villa Trench A, originally labelled a figure of a grotesque animal. | | Bibliography: | | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 2056 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Hellenistic Villa
Basket: NB97 P46
Notebook Page: NB 97, spread 29 (p. 47)
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