A section of Hadrian’s Wall east of Birdoswald Fort with something for #PhallusThursday .
The festival of Dionysius -- in place of the phallus they have invented the use of puppets a cubit long moved by strings, which are carried about the villages by women, the male member moving and near as big as the rest of the body. --Herodotus
#PhallusThursday #PhallophoricArt
Something from the Naughty Room at MANN for #PhallusThursday . A bronze statuette of a priapic placentarius (pastry-cook). Found in the House of the Ephebe at Pompeii.
Just another day at the office!
Today I have been decorating Roman Barbotine Cups with cocks. And not just any corks these are Ancient Roman lucky cocks.
If you need a lucky cock in your life,
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The Eurymedon Vase celebrates the Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of the Eurymedon river. Yes, that is a Greek warrior chasing a Persian with his phallus. #PhallusThursday
Attic, ca. 460 BC. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (1981.173) Hamburg, Germany
It's that day again where we look back to antiquity for inspiration on how to live our lives & discover the answer is apparently more penis decor. Yes it'ssssss #phallusthursday !!!
This week the artist of this pot from the BM has gone for a hint that his athlete's have genitals
For #PhallusThursday one of the oldest depictions of a phallus, carved out of very fine-grained siltstone some 30,000 years ago.
According to the museum's label 'apart from its purely symbolic meaning different uses are conceivable.' 😄
On display at our branch museum...1/2
#PhallusThursday something from the secret cabinet' in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. 'Wow what a big ermmm. Bollard you have! ' 👀
It's that day of the week again where a tiny corner of X do their best to educate the public that everyone great man of antiquity not only had a penis but likely had them displayed all about his house. Yes, even Marcus Aurelius. It'sssss #phallusthursday !!!!
It’s #phallusthursday so here’s something to ward off the “evil eye” and bring you good luck from a bathhouse in Herculaneum