Are these gaming pieces or locker room tokens at the Roman baths?
The term "spintria" to describe these erotic, coin-like tokens is a modern term from scholarship. We don't know what the Romans called them. In #ancientRome, a spintria was a male prostitute.
✨Roman tintinnabulum✨
There’s nothing like having a good set of bells to ward off trouble. Welcome to #PhallusThursday complete with this tintinnabulum shaped to resemble some sort of phallic-chimera. There’s no way evil vibes are going to get to the house that has this beauty out the front! This artefact is part of the “secret” gallery in the MAN Napoli.
✨Poseidon or Zeus✨
This stunning bronze sculpture is thought to be either Poseidon or Zeus. It dates to c. 460 BCE and was found near Cape Artemisium by fishermen in 1928. The figure is poised about to throw an object (now missing) but potentially a javelin. Today he’s our pick for #PhallusThursday!
This tintinabulum, a Roman wind chime, is a phallus with a longer, thinner phallus and a phallus up its arse. This is very efficient craftmanship, three in one for thrice the good luck!
✨It’s #PhallusThursday ✨
A celebration of the imagery of the ancients, today we turn to this red figure ware vessel depicting an old man with quite the phallus. He is bound and a crow looks up at him in an allusion to the myth of Prometheus.
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✨Pan riding an ithyphallic mule✨
The Greek god Pan was connected with flocks and shepherds so it perhaps only fitting that he is depicted here upon a mule, who is faithfully rendered complete with phallus.
This piece is thought to a Roman relief modelled upon an earlier Hellenistic era relief and it is now held in the MAN Napoli, inv. 27712.
#ReliefWednesday #PhallusThursday #AncientRome #AncientGreece #Priapus
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