Schamasche

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Schamasche on a fresco from Knossos , 16th century. v. Chr.
Clay figure depicting a male figure with a chamois from the summit shrine Petsophas on the east coast of Crete

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.