File:Clarke Ars Erotica 106.jpg

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English: Nude couple on a bed. There is an erect penis on the figure to the right.[1]

On the wall between the couple is a painting inside a shutter or a pinax.[1]

Text of inscription is: "VA[---] VIDES QUAM BENE CHALAS" (Va[...] look how good you are opening me).

Date: 2nd - early 3rd century CE[1]

Plaster cast of a terracotta medallion. Pottery medallions would be attached to the outside of pottery vessels.

Two fragments.[1]

From the Rhone Valley.[1]

Nimes, Musée Archéologique.
Date 98-117 AD
Source John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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  1. ↑ a b c d e John R Clarke (1998) Looking at Lovemaking, University of California Press, pp. 257 - 258

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Nude couple on a bed. There is an erect penis on the figure to the right. Plaster cast of a terracotta medallion. Date: 2nd - early 3rd century CE

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