Sacrifice to Priapus. Artist: Cristoforo di Geremia (Italian, Mantua, active 1456-76). Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.7 cm, wt. 47.22 g.. Date: model ca. 1470 (possibly cast 16th century).This plaquette is in the form of the cover of an all'antica oil lamp, decorated with three women offering sacrifices to an ithyphallic Priapus herm statue on a tripod altar. This work and the closely related Sacrifice to Cupid have been attributed to the Mantuan medalist Cristoforo di Geremia, who was active in Rome. Originally both plaquettes were often combined with all'antica oil lamps, and in the antiquarian literature were confused with authentic Roman bronze lamps. The inscription .L.C.I. has been interpreted as "Lucerna Continui Ignis" (the eternally burning lamp), following a seventeenth-century interpretation by Fortunius Licetus, who related this type of plaquette and its accompanying lamp to legendary ancient Roman lamps that were found burning after 1,500 years or more. The Lehman plaquette appears

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Sacrifice to Priapus. Artist: Cristoforo di Geremia (Italian, Mantua, active 1456-76). Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.7 cm, wt. 47.22 g.. Date: model ca. 1470 (possibly cast 16th century).This plaquette is in the form of the cover of an all'antica oil lamp, decorated with three women offering sacrifices to an ithyphallic Priapus herm statue on a tripod altar. This work and the closely related Sacrifice to Cupid have been attributed to the Mantuan medalist Cristoforo di Geremia, who was active in Rome. Originally both plaquettes were often combined with all'antica oil lamps, and in the antiquarian literature were confused with authentic Roman bronze lamps. The inscription .L.C.I. has been interpreted as "Lucerna Continui Ignis" (the eternally burning lamp), following a seventeenth-century interpretation by Fortunius Licetus, who related this type of plaquette and its accompanying lamp to legendary ancient Roman lamps that were found burning after 1,500 years or more. The Lehman plaquette appears

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