1186 BC The papyrus dates from the XX Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, which lasted from 1186-1069 BC. It was discovered in the early 19th century.
It was probably created by a painter from Deir El-Medina village. When French scholar (and translator of the Rosetta Stone) Jean-François Champollion viewed the papyrus in Torino in 1824, he described it in his notes as: “an image of monstrous obscenity that gave me a really strange impression about Egyptian wisdom and composure.”
The Turin Erotic Papyrus is a famous (or rather, infamous) 12th/11th century BC Egyptian papyrus, divided into two parts, giving a unique insight into attitudes toward comedy and sex in ancient Egypt. It was discovered in Deir El-Medina in the early 19th century, and has been described as the "world's first men's mag." The first section is satirical - it humourosly shows humanized animals performing tasks such as playing musical instruments, climbing trees to pick fruit, quarelling and driving chariots. The second section is erotic - it explicitly shows a bearded man engaging in various different acrobatic sex acts with a female courtesan.
The papyrus is said to represent attitudes towards sex in Egypt that were very relaxed and erotic, yet also discreet and kept behind closed doors. The papyrus was "completed" (since framgments are missing) digitally by Wild Dream Films in 2009, as part of a documentary for the History Channel titled Sex In The Ancient World - Egyptian Erotica. It is on display today in the Museo Egizio in Turin.
Erotic section
Containing twelve successive scenes, the erotic section takes up two-thirds of the Turin Papyrus.[1]
Not conforming the convention of bodily perfection in ancient Egyptian art, the men depicted on the papyrus are "scruffy, balding, short, and paunchy" with exaggeratedly large genitalia.[5] In contrast, the women are nubile and appear with canonical erotic images of convolvulus leaves, Hathoric imagery, lotus flowers, monkeys and sistra.[5] Overall, the artistic merit of the images is high, suggesting that the Erotic Papyrus had an elite owner and audience.[1]
The various male images have also been interpreted as a single protagonist, who has several encounters with a courtesan.[4]
Uniqueness
The severely damaged Erotic Papyrus is the only known erotic scroll-painting to have survived.[1]
Modern audiences often misconceive that ancient Egyptian art is devoid of sexual themes.[1] After Jean-François Champollion saw the papyrus in 1824 at Torino, he described it as "an image of monstrous obscenity that gave me a really strange impression about Egyptian wisdom and composure."[4][6]
Purpose
The real significance of the images is yet unknown since those fragments of text that have survived reasonably intact have so far not yielded any clear purpose for the Erotic Papyrus.[2] The text appears to have been hastily written in the margins and would seem to express enjoyment and delight
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This scene from a sarcophagus in Thebes illustrates part of an Egyptian creation myth. According to this myth, the world was produced from the union of the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut. Posts: 42920 | From: , | Registered: Jan 2010
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Beautiful Egyptian sexual papyrus. The Indian have similar illustrated sexual book call kama Sutra. The Chinese and Japanese have the illustrated sexual book call the pillow book.
The Egyptian sexual papyrus and the kama Sutra are not pornographic books. They are spiritual books. Those books are about the union of the opposite and using sex to connect with God and the universe.
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^ It's true that the Egyptians like all peoples in the ancient world considered sex to be spiritual, but they also considered it to be plain old "fun" and "a good time". Which is why some artwork showing sex scenes like the Turin Papyrus for example are just comic scenes that were drawn for fun and comedic relief.
I will say that the vast majority of sexual motifs in Egyptian art are spiritual in that they depict gods in various sexual acts. Male gods with erect phalli like Min or female gods like Nut with her vulva exposed.
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quote:Originally posted by mena7: Beautiful Egyptian sexual papyrus. The Indian have similar illustrated sexual book call kama Sutra. The Chinese and Japanese have the illustrated sexual book call the pillow book.
The Egyptian sexual papyrus and the kama Sutra are not pornographic books. They are spiritual books. Those books are about the union of the opposite and using sex to connect with God and the universe.
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^Since the is an 18+ thread. This is especially for Lioness.
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quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: ^ Since when did you care about the delectation of lioness?? Are we to assume that's what she enjoys--depictions of erect phalli?
Well, in the past lioness posted depictions of erected penisis. I assume lioness collects these type of images.
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