#Archaeology/#Technology: "A unique artifact discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda may have been used as a device during #sex rather than as a good luck symbol, archaeologists suggest"
phys.org/news/2023-02-d…
phys.org/news/2023-02-d…
"new analysis by experts at Newcastle University and University College Dublin has shown it to be the first known example of a disembodied phallus made of wood recovered anywhere in the Roman world."
"In a discussion paper published in the journal Antiquity, the team explore three possible explanations for the phallus' purpose. One of these is that the life-sized object was used as a sexual implement. Another possibility, the team say, is that the object may have ...
... been used as a pestle—either for culinary purposes or to grind ingredients for cosmetics or medicinal treatments."
"The third possible function was that the phallus may have been slotted into a statue which passers-by would touch for good luck or to absorb or activate protection from misfortune—which was common throughout the Roman empire."
Touch wood: luck, protection, power or pleasure? A wooden phallus from Vindolanda Roman fort bit.ly/3xTz0IU
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