Schamasche
A vaginal pocket or phallic pocket is an item of clothing that covers the genitals.
Minoan garment
The Schamasche was among other things a component of the short Cretomino male costume of antiquity . Already during the Minoan period of the old palace , the shamash pocket was worn by Cretan men, as demonstrated by clay idols that were discovered in high-altitude sanctuaries.
See also
literature
- Stylianos Alexiou : Minoan Culture. Musterschmidt Göttingen, Frankfurt a. M. - Zurich 1976, p. 30.
- Katarina Horst: The anthropomorphic terracottas from Lato. From the Middle Minoan period to the end of the 6th century. v. Chr. In: Spyridon Marinatos: clothes, hair and beard. (= Archaeologia Homerica, Lfg. A ) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967, p. 21 f. ( PDF ).
- Mireelle M. Lee: Deciphering Gender in Minoan Dress. In: Alison E. Rautman (Ed.): Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8122-1709-8 , p. 116.
- Claudia Schopphoff: The belt: function and symbolism of a garment in antiquity and the Middle Ages . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne-Weimar 2009, p. 4.