Turin erotic caricatures
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 12). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: Dynasty 20, 1190–1077 BCE
Region: Probably Deir el-Medina, Egypt
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1190 BCE to 1077 BCE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
The other half of the Turin papyrus shows absurdly endowed, often balding and pot-bellied men in elaborate sexual poses with women; accompanying captions present dialogue.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
An ancient illustrated sexual sequence is securely attested.
What remains uncertain
The cited object alone demonstrates neither copying of this sequence nor a grassroots audience; being comic is irrelevant to the corrected criterion.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria