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orichalcum at 04:30pm on 05/09/2004
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Offerings to the temple at Pyrgi included two phallic perfume bottles, representations of uteri, and baby's heads.
I mean, of course, _clay_ baby's heads. (Standard ancient religious practice was to offer up a representation of whatever body part you wanted healed, and I think that's what's going on here; it's a fertility cult.)
I mean, of course, _clay_ baby's heads. (Standard ancient religious practice was to offer up a representation of whatever body part you wanted healed, and I think that's what's going on here; it's a fertility cult.)
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