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Roman or late Roman bronze statuette of a naked woman with wings of a bird holding an opened pomegranate (engr
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DGC405774
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Roman or late Roman bronze statuette of a naked woman with wings of a bird holding an opened pomegranate (engraving) (see also 405775 and 405776)
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English School, (18th century) (after) / English
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Private Collection
Medium
engraving
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discovered in Sardinia by Pierre-Francois Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805) who described it as a 'Venus of the Vandals' with the opened fruit symbolic of the female vulva; possibly a portable statue with a similar function to a sheela-na-gig (see 405772);the use and symbolism is disputed, perhaps a fertility figure, to keep evil spirits away, protection of buildings or survival of a pagan goddess cult; illustration from 'The Worship of Priapus' by Richard Payne Knight (1750-1820) published in 1786 for the Dilettanti Society and reprinted in 1865;

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Prismatic Pictures / Bridgeman Images
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nakedness / religious / female / guarding / paganism / genitals / breasts / protective / genitalia / religion / sheela na gig

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