(08-03-2016, 03:09 PM)Sam G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.All this talk of phalluses in the VMS, and nobody has yet mentioned the most obvious one: the top nymph on the outer ring on f72r1 (next to <oaiin arary>), sporting male genitalia yet otherwise apparently female.
I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned anywhere. I've wondered if people are aware of it.
Sam, if you mean the Virgo ring, there are males in the inner circle at 2 o'clock and 11 o'clock (the one on the left looks like an older man, balding). and in the ring just above him another man with what I think is second man directly behind him (although the headdress might be suggestive of female but I'm leaning toward man).
Two more males in the outer ring at 2 and 3 o'clock and the lower one appears to be bald on top like the one in the inner circle on the left.
As far as iconography goes, since men had long hair in those days (and possibly also wore makeup) and can't be easily be distinguished by hair or even their faces in a small nude picture, the VMS illustrator tended to draw men with smaller, flatter bellies, no breasts, with the penis only sometimes shown.
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