Omphale figure

Unknown

100 BC–300 AD · Carnelian · Egyptian Art

Long termed Baubo figures, figures of a woman with legs raised to expose her genitals have recently been identified as Ompahle. Omphale was a figure of Greek mythology whose liaison with Herakles gave her power over the womb and the travails of childbirth and, by extension, over rebirth after death.

Artist

Unknown

Date

100 BC–300 AD

Medium

Carnelian

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915