Let your wildest dreams come true in Pompeii. This ithyphallic plaque is found outside the Modestus Bakery (VII.1.36). You know you’ll have a good day if everything rises as well as the bread 😉
And for our #PhallusThursday fans, here’s a close up on the old personification of the Campus Martius. Who knew one’s obelisk could be quite so substantial 😳
As Sydney gears up for Mardi Gras, this fantastic phallic hat would not be out of place in the celebrations. Across the centuries, the phallic hat is fashionably timeless!
This bronze polyphallic tintinnabulum of Mercury is from Pompeii
Like many things in life, there’s the art and then there’s the phallus drawings. I guess we can safely appreciate this gesture that’s near Hadrian’s wall as either one or the other 😅
Top reason to go to Delos? To see these magnificent phalloi set up to show appreciation to Dionysus and Pan. Just a matter of finding where the tips went…
Far be it from us to suggest you visit Pompeii to go on an exploratory phallus-finding mission… but we certainly wouldn’t try to dissuade you either. Just look at that phallus framed by other phalluses! Must be good fortune 🥳
For me they were really the funniest on X and not as trollish as the rest there.
The #PhallusThursday always got the best laughs from me...😉 😂
The historical finds and the pictures were always the highlight of the week and always the best laughs.
Here I don't find so much in this #
That gives me the idea that we could change that?!
This delightful barbotine vessel is adorned with sweet phallic creatures with legs resembling those of chickens and either wings or maybe antlers (at a pinch).
Leptis Magna is famous as the birth place of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, but what may truly place this ancient city in the annals of history is this excellent phallic relief. May good fortune shine upon all who see this creature!
For #PhallusThursday a #Roman gold winged phallus pendant found in Carnuntum, Austria (length 2.8 cm).
Roman phallic symbols were thought to ward off any evil.
One of the great examples of a just how phallic a tintinnabulum can get! Not only is the charioteer a phallus, but the chariot is itself a phallus with two heads and an extra phallus of its own for good measure.
The first temptation is to assume the nude Pan has been up to no good, but he seems to be riding the mule with some modesty. Now, the same cannot be said for the mule…
Ahhh the Romans’ most fortunate day of the week. Here we offer dubious honour to Priapus, the god often most found holding a fruit basket. That’s no cornucopia!