The receptive partner of anal sex has an erect penis and this has no parralell in either contemporary or later images of sex between males.[1] The receptive partner is able to show effection by kissing or embracing his partner.[1]
Engraved banded agate gem
Greek inscription.
Museum: Formerly in the Royal Coin Cabinet Leiden (Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet).[1]
Possibly moved to the Royal Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) in leiden?
Gemme mit griechischer Inschrift.
Übersetzung: "Leopard (pardalos), trink!
Lebe in Luxus und Liebe!
Sterben musst du, denn kurz ist die Zeit.
Grieche, lebe zur Fülle!"
Leiden, Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet, Inv. 1948.
Source
John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
Author
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