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Description from the museum: “Naked maenad in front of a stele. The slender body with a high waist is given in a three-quarter front view, the head gracefully lowered. The simple hairstyle consists of center-parted hair that is curled at the temples and nape of the neck. The maenad holds a thyrsos in her lowered right hand, and in her left hand, slightly raised, with delicately spread fingers, a phallos on a ribbon. Location: Vienna Art History Museum”

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Description from the museum: “Naked maenad in front of a stele. The slender body with a high waist is given in a three-quarter front view, the head gracefully lowered. The simple hairstyle consists of center-parted hair that is curled at the temples and nape of the neck. The maenad holds a thyrsos in her lowered right hand, and in her left hand, slightly raised, with delicately spread fingers, a phallos on a ribbon. Location: Vienna Art History Museum”
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The Partial Historians (phistorians@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 11:03:42 JST The Partial Historians

This maenad is certainly living up to her reputation! As a devotee of Dionysus she appears nude holding a thyrsos staff and touching a disembodied phallus! This C2nd BCE amethyst simply shines!
#PhallusThursday #AncientHistory @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons @AimeeMaroux

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