Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Priapus statuette

 
Original - Bronze statuette of the Roman fertility god Priapus, made in two parts (shown here in assembled and disassembled forms). This statuette has been dated to the late 1st century C.E. It was found in Rivery, in Picardy, France in 1771 and is the oldest Gallo-Roman object in the collection of the Museum of Picardy. This figurine represents the deity clothed in a "cuculus", a Gallic coat with hood. This upper section is detachable and conceals a phallus.
Reason
Fascinating piece of artwork. Wouldn't this be a nice front page image. http://www.scholarsresource.com/browse/work/2144598506 is my source for it being made of bronze.
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Priapus
Creator
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Vassil
I should point out that the image apparently consists of crops and copying from this commons image. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't read French, so I used babelfish to translate the original French caption, puzzled out what it was supposed to say, then did some additional research to come up with the caption used above. I've added my English-language caption to the Commons description page for the image. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]