Sexual & Erotic Charms · c. 3000 BCE – today

Egyptian & Graeco-Egyptian fertility figures

What it is

Phallus amulets, ithyphallic gods (Min, Bes, Harpocrates) and the squatting, self-exposing Baubo figures of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, used for fertility, easy birth and laughter against evil.

Making yours

1–8 cm faience, terracotta or bronze. Baubo figures are mould-made terracotta, 5–10 cm.

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This section is sexually explicit: phallic charms, fertility figures and erotic badges, photographed as the museums hold them. The photographs stay blurred until you choose to see them.

Amulet of Baubo (10450338394)

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