Posted on 08/26/2022 9:37:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A crude drawing spray-painted onto a lamppost or scribbled inside a school textbook may cause an eye roll, but wouldn't be too surprising.
However archaeologists were taken aback when they discovered an 18-inch (half-metre) phallic carving in an ancient Roman settlement known as El Higuerón.
Excavations by the Museo Histórico Local de Nueva Carteya uncovered the bas-relief penis, which was unveiled on the museum's social media channels last Friday.
El Higuerón, a municipality of Nueva Carteya in Spain, was occupied by Iberians in the 4th century BC until the Roman conquest of the region around 206 BC.
They erected a tower-shaped building on its ruins which is currently being uncovered, and carved the phallus on one of its cornerstones.
Romans believed the symbol was the embodiment of masculine power and brought about protection and good fortune, so depictions have been found throughout Roman culture.
Andrés Roldán, a researcher at the University of Extremadura and director of the museum, described it as 'unusually large'.
He told El País: 'It was common to put them on the facades of houses, and soldiers carried small phallic amulets as symbols of virility.
'We are currently researching whether one of similar dimensions has been previously found.'
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Trigger alert!
I thought they said it was unusually large?
That may be Patrick Star sleeping.
It was said to be the property of the great Centurion Jonathanus Holmicles.
Or maybe the Emperor Biggus Dickus.
DANG!
You can always count on those ancient Roman guys to have known what really mattered.
“That’s no eunich!”
But you’ve been to Oklahoma?
Oh, no!
Did he die?? *gasp* :swoon:
‘Face
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“detachable penis” by king missile...
Ancient Norelco electric shaver?
Yes!.....................
Irrefutable proof that giants existed in Spain before they were wiped out by the English tourists.
Archeologists see what they want to see. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. It’s probably just an ancient road sign directing travelers to Lewinskius.
That’s nothing. There’s a huge, wide penis in Flint, Michigan.
I don’t mean it’s carved out of Flint, it’s called Michael Moore.
LOLOL!
Oh my.
I find it fascinating that the archeologists found it fascinating to find a Dick-Pik equivalent carving in all the quasiquiddity of Roman Culture.
From the looks of it, it’s a beer-can model that actress playing the warden on on “Orange is the New Black” always talked about with the subordinate there she was doing....
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