DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17531#0030
130 D. G. HOGARTH, H. L. LORIMER, AND C. C. EDGAR
from Sais and has been published by M. Daressy in the Annales du Service,
vol. ii. PI. II. The small head published below, Fig. 9, is superior in style
to the works just cited and is probably an imported object from Cyprus :
it has been part of a limestone statuette. It would be interesting to collect
all the traces of Cypriote and Phoenician activity in Egypt. Certainly
the part played by Cyprus in the development of Naukratis was very
important.
Another group of limestone objects, very characteristic of Naukratis,
consists of small phallic figures, These are probably in great part of the
same age as the preceding types. A terracotta specimen was obtained along
with the archaic horsemen from Boubastis mentioned above. They are often
represented playing on some musical instrument, and some of them wear
the side-lock of childhood.6 There is no reason for thinking that the type
Kiu. 10. (Scale 3 : 4).
was introduced into Naukratis from Greece. The style, such as it is, is
Egyptian. In Leemann's Aeg. Monumental, vol. i. PI. XVIII., illustrations
are given of a number of phallic figurines of which No. 1466 is very like
the Naukratis group which I speak of. The site, however, has produced
6 In this connexion it is worth noting that (popeovai Kara K(ip.as yvvalKes, vevov rh aibo'iov,
many of the later terracotta images of Harpo- ov iroWtf rap thaaaov ibv rov &\\ov irdnaros-
krates have a phallic character. The intrusion irpojiyeeTai 5e av\6s, a? 5« eirovrai aeiSovaai rbv
of this element into the cult of the chilil-god Aiimaor. There is a large terracotta of
has not yet been traced or explained. Egyptian style in the Cairo Museum (belonging
The Naukratite figures are to some extent to a group mentioned later on) which represents
illustrative of a passage in Herodotus, ii. 4i : a procession of this sort: the chief personage
o.vt\ 5e (pa\\'2v &\\a crrpi carl Qevpyixiva, ouov holds a musical instrument and his phallos is
re Try]xva.'ia ayd\fj.aTa vevp^fnracrra, to. irepL- supported by four women.
from Sais and has been published by M. Daressy in the Annales du Service,
vol. ii. PI. II. The small head published below, Fig. 9, is superior in style
to the works just cited and is probably an imported object from Cyprus :
it has been part of a limestone statuette. It would be interesting to collect
all the traces of Cypriote and Phoenician activity in Egypt. Certainly
the part played by Cyprus in the development of Naukratis was very
important.
Another group of limestone objects, very characteristic of Naukratis,
consists of small phallic figures, These are probably in great part of the
same age as the preceding types. A terracotta specimen was obtained along
with the archaic horsemen from Boubastis mentioned above. They are often
represented playing on some musical instrument, and some of them wear
the side-lock of childhood.6 There is no reason for thinking that the type
Kiu. 10. (Scale 3 : 4).
was introduced into Naukratis from Greece. The style, such as it is, is
Egyptian. In Leemann's Aeg. Monumental, vol. i. PI. XVIII., illustrations
are given of a number of phallic figurines of which No. 1466 is very like
the Naukratis group which I speak of. The site, however, has produced
6 In this connexion it is worth noting that (popeovai Kara K(ip.as yvvalKes, vevov rh aibo'iov,
many of the later terracotta images of Harpo- ov iroWtf rap thaaaov ibv rov &\\ov irdnaros-
krates have a phallic character. The intrusion irpojiyeeTai 5e av\6s, a? 5« eirovrai aeiSovaai rbv
of this element into the cult of the chilil-god Aiimaor. There is a large terracotta of
has not yet been traced or explained. Egyptian style in the Cairo Museum (belonging
The Naukratite figures are to some extent to a group mentioned later on) which represents
illustrative of a passage in Herodotus, ii. 4i : a procession of this sort: the chief personage
o.vt\ 5e (pa\\'2v &\\a crrpi carl Qevpyixiva, ouov holds a musical instrument and his phallos is
re Try]xva.'ia ayd\fj.aTa vevp^fnracrra, to. irepL- supported by four women.