Posted on 05/06/2025 4:37:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
At Vindolanda, small, portable phalli made of bone or metal were commonly worn as pendants around the neck, to ward off evil and aid fertility.
According to experts, this particular object's smooth surface suggests the owner touched it often for good luck...
Vindolanda Charitable Trust posted the find to its Facebook page, where it was met with some hilarious comments...
It is now at an on-site laboratory where it will be cleaned before going being researched further and going on public display at Vindolanda in 2026.
Just under an inch (2.5cm) in length, the phallic charm was constructed out of jet, a dark, semi-precious gemstone.
Jet became increasingly common as a material used for jewellery from the early third century onwards, according to Dr Birley...
Vindolanda Roman Fort was under Roman occupation roughly between 85 AD and 370 AD, archaeological excavations already show.
We also know that phallic symbols were used widely across the Roman Empire as a way to protect against bad luck and ward off evil...
Small phalli carved from bone or crafted from metal were commonly worn as pedants, while homes were often decorated with frescoes or mosaics featuring phalli...
Previously, archaeologists found a handwritten birthday invitation at Vindolanda where one woman invited her 'dearest sister' to join her...
In 2006, a richly-decorated silver brooch featuring the figure of Mars was found.
It belonged to Quintus Sollonius, a Gaul, whose name was inscribed on the brooch.
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Maybe it wasn’t a ‘good luck charm.’
Maybe it was a ‘symbol’, like today’s LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ ‘rainbow’ symbol, indicating what your ‘preferences’ were.........
Smegmopolis. š
He’s a grower, not a shower...
It was in the pool!
I think it would be Dinkus Dickus.
Canāt forget his wife, Safus Buttocks.
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Is it an Angry Inch?
Phalli?
My college roommate and I always got a kick out of the neighbor’s front airbrushed vanity plate that had ‘Peni’ on the front. We thought it was plural....
Probably a Gemini, they, well, you know...
It’s nice to be appreciated in my own time. ;^)
:^) All the Roman legion’s camp followers left for their hometowns in the middle of the night, now we know why.
That's gotta be the smallest black penis ever.
I'm in so much trouble for saying that out loud, but I know a lot of you were thinking it...
OK is never a threat.
Or maybe he just enjoyed playing with it.
(Experts can be so naive.)
May have been used as protection against “The Evil Eye.” The first glance of the evil was considered the most powerful so pendants that caught the eye were wore and absorbed the first “blast”. Other glances became less “powerful”
In the Middle Ages Knights had shields with flowery designs on them to “catch” the first glance before the “lance”. (Oh I made a funny!)
???-You lost me.
LISTER: (Threateningly) OK, Rimmer. OK.
RIMMER: OK?
LISTER: OK.
RIMMER: Is that a threat, Lister?
LISTER: Yeah.
RIMMER: Actually, “OK,” Lister, is not a threat, technically speaking.
LISTER: It is when you mean it to mean what I mean it to mean, and I mean it to mean, OK, Rimmer, O-K!
RIMMER: No, Lister, “OK” is never a threat, no matter how many A’s you put on the end.
A ONE INCH penis is NOTHING to be proud of.
In India, it’s called a ‘lingham’ and if s supposed to represent fertility.
HA! I guess that was too esoteric even for me.
One inch wasn’t going to get him lucky.
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