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From: Mary Ellin D'Agostino <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: FW: The Love Mug


>>From Yahoo!News:
><http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010214/od/drinking_dc_1.html>
>
>Wednesday February 14 7:47 AM ET
>Old 'Drinking Penis' Goes on Display
>LONDON (Reuters) - A unique, 300-year-old phallic shaped drinking cup
>discovered in a London cess pit by archeologists is to go on display at a
>museum in the capital on Wednesday, Valentine's Day.
>The Museum of London said that the unusual receptacle is around
>six-and-a-half inches (16 cm) long, hollow, made from tin-glazed
earthenware
>and ``rendered with exact anatomical precision.''
>``A small cup above the testicles suggests that the vessel was used to
>contain liquid, possibly wine, beer or ale,'' the museum said in a
>statement.
>``Phallic objects were common in the Roman and Medieval periods but this is
>the only known tin-glazed example of early modern date.''
>Ruth Panes, the field archeologist who found the artifact, said she got ``a
>bit of a shock'' on making the discovery before bursting into laughter when
>she realized what it was.
>The drinking penis will eventually join a selection of 18th century
>pornographic tiles found in central London and held at the Museum of
London.
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>
>Mary Ellin D'Agostino, PhD, RPA
>Post-Doctoral Fellow
>Archaeological Research Facility
>University of California
>Berkeley, CA 94720-1076
>510-236-2303
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