Middle Period

The Middle Period was renowned for a charged libidinousness exceeding even Paphian sensuality. (COL catalog numbers: 69-92, 136-137)

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Dark green bronze urn with hippopotamus head handles and decorative vine around middle and neck.

Green bronze hppopotamus head handle from the Esnontos urn.

Expedition artist facsimile of a cracked temple wall painting with vivid red background and gold-colored stylized stilt-walkers.

Expedition artist facsimile of a Llhuroscian temple wall painting in decorative reds, golds, and greens depicting large stylized bird a top the head of a stilt-walker.

Worn, brown, wood and metal plaque votive with stylized humanoid male with erect phallus attached; holes for screws, vertical ridged metal piece

Expedition artist's facsimile of a wall painting used as score for public singing in Llhuros; deep yellow background, various colored discs and squares with some cuneiform.

A gray-green yellow-specked ceramic fragment from a Llhuroscian headboard depicting foliage and a bird perched a top a phallic shape with.

Line-drawing of headboard showing numerous phallic features.

Fragment of a temple wall-painting in various browns and tans showing a distinct orant figure.TEMPLE OF PHALLOS AT DRAIKUM

Expedition artist's facsimile of very colorful wall painting of orant figure of Llhuroscian god Tal-Hax.

Expedition artist's facisimile of colorful wall paintingwith stylized robed figures of the two main Llhurscian gods Tal-Hax and Shor-Noo.

Bronze object with a bronze green patina with base framing an upright phallic shape and a spiked top.

Bronze, green-patinaed Llhuroscian oil container resembling modern-day orange squeezer; some breaks.

Round leather container holding a metal applicator which resembles a small ancient stair case

Hextagonal object consisting of five nested brown wood containers surrounding a small ivory oil applicator

Two-part hinged wooden plaque, one side with stylized male figure, the other with rows of inserts with circular interiors, many holding brass beads of various shapes.

Highly abstracted shapes in black paint and muslin cloth against dark sky with clouds, stars, small ladder-like figures.

Large fragment of Llhuroscian temple wall painting in various motled g

A few panels comprising the very long section of temple iiner wall featuring bas-relief of gods and other orant figures

Image of a very large fragment of a wall-painting from a Llhuroscian temple; jagged and motled orange color against mottled brown background.

Two Llhuroscian wooden erotic instruments as abstracted representations of male and female genitalia.

Expedition artist's small facsimile of a Llhuroscian wall-painting showing erotic representations in rich reds, browns and gold colors.

Temple wall fragment of a richly painted image of Aar-Tenn, the Bird God.; burnt reds, pale gold, turquoise accents.

Miniature replica of a circular greenish-gray decorative shield with two salamanders, some damage.

Dark bronze vase with two handles, green patina areas, decorative ridges, swirls and designs; some damage.

An abstracted metal figure on a rusted ridged pedestal set on 2-tiered exhibition base of stone and wood

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