2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze mount representing Priapus, the fertility god, emerging from a pillar and offering fruit, dressed in a tunic and a pallium cloak worn over his head (capite velato); the insertion pin still present, possibly a mount for a staff. Similar to a piece in the British Museum, inventory no.1814,0704.411.62 grams, 67mm (2 1/2"). From the collection of a Surrey gentleman; acquired 1970-1980. Images of the god were placed in household shrines as protection for the boundaries of the family's land, in addition to the wellbeing of the crops grown on it and the animals reared there.