A priest making a sacrifice to the fertility god Priapus

A priest making a sacrifice to the fertility god Priapus. In animal skin and tunic the priest offers grapes, a rams head and cornucopia of fruit at an altar. The figure of Priapus with horn of plenty and erect phallus. From an Etruscan marble bas relief. Priapi sacrificium ex marmore. Cortonae ex Museo Marchionum de Venutis. Copperplate engraving from Francesco Valesio, Antonio Gori and Ridolfino Venuti's Academia Etrusca, Museum Cortonense in quo Vetera Monumenta, (Etruscan Academy or Museum of Cortona), Faustus Amideus, Rome, 1750

18th Century Academia Etrusca Animal Skin Antonio Gori Bas Relief Cornucopia Cortona Erect Etruria Etruscan Etruscan Academy Faustus Amideus Francesco Valesio Grapes Horn Of Plenty Museum Cortonense Museum Of Cortona Phallus Priapus Ridolfino Venuti Sacrifice Vetera Monumenta

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