A woman clipping her pubic hair with shears. 12th century relief now in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Museo_d%27arte_antica_a_Milano" class="mw-redirect" title="Museo d'arte antica a Milano">Museum of Ancient Art</a> in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Castello_sforzesco_a_Milano" class="mw-redirect" title="Castello sforzesco a Milano">Castello sforzesco</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Milan">Milan</a>, Italy. Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, january 6 2007. The sculpture is said to represent emperor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Federico_Barbarossa" class="mw-redirect" title="Federico Barbarossa">Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor</a>'s wife in a debasing attitude, but it possibly belongs to the tradition of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela-na-gig" class="extiw" title="en:Sheela-na-gig">Celtic "impudic" images</a> used to keep Evil away: see: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/irish.htm">http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/irish.htm</a>
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