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Fresco of Priapus weighing his phallus, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. c.50-79 AD (fresco)

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DGC1268034
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Fresco of Priapus weighing his phallus, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. c.50-79 AD (fresco)
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Roman, (1st century AD)
Location
Area archeologica di Pompei, Pompeii, Naples, Campania, Italy
Medium
fresco
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Painting of Priapus weighing his phallus. The god of potency and prosperity holds up a pair of scales to weigh against a sack of coins his huge and hefty organ. It weighs at least as much as the coins, as if to prove that fecundity is worth its weight in gold. Note also the basket of fruit his phallus points down to, indicating his origin as a god of groves and gardens;

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