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Then, in 2016, something even stranger happened: the seller posted on eBay a fragment of an onyx cameo featuring a young woman in profile alongside Priapus, the god of fertility.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Visitors enter through the atrium, a courtyard and reception area featuring a fresco of Narcissus, the young man who fell in love with his own reflection, and a statue of Priapus.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2022
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Visitors enter through the atrium, a courtyard and reception area featuring a fresco of Narcissus, the young man who fell in love with his own reflection, and a statue of Priapus.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2022
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“Priapus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Priapus. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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