orichalcum: (Default)
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.)

Reply

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

April

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1 2
 
3 4
 
5
 
6 7 8 9 10 11
 
12 13 14
 
15
 
16 17 18
 
19 20 21 22 23
 
24 25
 
26 27
 
28
 
29
 
30