Showing posts with label Erotica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erotica. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Parthian statuette, found at Babylon

Nude woman, Parthian, found at Babylon
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
Source: Flickr [1]

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Possible Elamite Erotic Art

Possibly Another Elamite Artwork. There is a similar item that is claimed to be Elamite which we posted before. Link [1]
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
Source: Flickr [2]

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Sassanid Vase with Dancing Female Figures

Silver gilt vase with dancing female figures
Sassanid period Iran
circa 6th century AD
kept in Miho Museum, Japan [1]



A Set of Eleven Persian Illuminated Manuscript Leaves

each with one side containing a geometric decorated field and gilt pigment, the reverse having painted erotic scenes.
Height 8 7/8 x width 5 1/4 inches.
Possibly Qajar Period
Source: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers

A QAJAR EROTIC DRAWING

IRAN, 19TH CENTURY 
Gouache, the couple in embroidered coats sit on European style chair, with discarded skirt in foreground, dark green border, mounted on red album leaf with adjoining page of text, 8ll. ofnasta'liq in clouds on gold, blue and orange border, very slight staining
Folio 15 1/3 x 12in. (39 x 30.5cm.); miniature 8 x 4¾in. (20.3 x 12cm.)  
Source:  Christie's Auction

Persian Erotic Scene

PERSIAN SCHOOL EROTIC SCENE. 
Gouache (11" x 6.75" sheet).
Possibly Qajar Period
Source: [1]

Explicit Elamite Tablets

Elamite period
Circa 1900-1200BC
Found in the ancient city of Susa
pictures in an article in Iranica Antiqua in our library. "The Iconography of Pre-Islamic women in Iran" (Aurelie Daems. Iranica Antiqua. Vol 36, 2001, p1-150) and 
"Eine Kneipe in Susa" (L. Trumpelmann. Iranica Antiqua. Vol 16, 1981, p35-44). There is a section on "erotica" in the 150-page masters thesis. The figurines and tablets in the following pictures are from the Neolithic period (8th millenium) all the way down to Sassanian times. The explicit tablets are mostly from Susa. Only the styles and focus of the art have changed down the ages.
Source: Iranian.com [1]







Ancient Elamite clay figure of Astarte 1350 BC


 An Elamite clay figure of the goddess Astarte, depicted nude with her hands cupped beneath her breasts and with elaborate coiffure, wearing bracelets, earrings and a necklace with pendant hanging between her breasts
Dated from, Middle Elamite period, 1350 BC
Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (Phoenician), or Inanna (Sumerian) was the most important female deity in Mesopotamia through the second millennium BC. She was identified with the planet Venus, and the sunrise. She was the goddess of both sexual love and warfare. The Greeks identified her with Aphrodite.
Measurements: Height: 14.5 cm – Width: 5 cm – Height on stand: 16.5 cm
Source: Aweidah Gallery [1]