Lapis enzyte venditus ab Bob
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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Somebody in Iceland had to wake up one morning and declare:
“Today is the day I’ll create a plan for a big, high class penis museum. Donors! I will need a lot of donors and a few young volunteers to create a hack proof website.
Now, to begin writing my Mission(ary) Statement!”
An early version of a soldier giving the BOHICA warning to his comrades.
It translates to “tighten up, the Centurian’s on a rampage again”.
Lapis enzyte venditus ab Bob
i had this... or
perhaps an ancestor of Laz...
i hit this.
That’s just an ancient neon sign pointing towards the whore house. They are very close.
I bought that book when we visited Pompeii!
Represents masculine power? Isn’t that a libiot swear word?
So, did he get lucky?
The documentary is called “The Final Member”, and it’s on Amazon Prime, otherwise you might be able to catch it on YouTube.
I passed it over twice, but I kept coming back to it, LOL, so I just HAD to satisfy my curiosity.
It truly is bizarre, but there is nothing “dirty” or pornographic about it.
It’s about one man’s mission to collect the penises of every animal species that he could get his hands on. And that includes Man.
If that isn’t strange enough, two men, an Icelandic and an American are competing for the honor of being the first to donate theirs.
Gotta see it-but once is enough.
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Roman Britain, when men were men and women appreciated it.
Since it's granite and marble sticking straight up, it's likely meant to represent something a good bit more virile than the half-meter horizontal one in southern Spain.
Those are some old hookers. In my first job, the “for a good time call” number in the restroom stall, when called, reached a local nursing home.
/rimshot
Nice euphony!
They picked up the practice of using Hermai from the Greeks. Oh, hey, that page you linked has a nice discussion of the Athenian mutilation of the Hermai (hermy-eye), during the slow downward spiral of Athenian (fake) democracy.
It’s really a hammerhead shark, pointing toward the nearest fish joint.
Okay, so, the jokes really do write themselves. And right themselves.
Bezos’ is a dildo, rather than a weiner.
Hadrian’s also remembered for, uh, erecting cult statues of his deceased catamite, Antinous. They’re nekkid!
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