Antinous the Gay God🪷 #FascinusFriday: Fascinating #Fascinus Phallus amulets/talismans guarded Romans (even children) as rings, pendants, tintinnabulum wind chimes and even paving stones. Such Fascinus phallic symbolism warded off evil from Roman homes. 🪷
🪷 #PhallusThursday Winged #fascinus poly-phallic emblem to ward off evil from a house and allow in only "neighbors and friends" as the Greek inscription says, 1st Century AD. 🪷
🪷 #FascinusFriday: Fascinating #Fascinus Phallus amulets/talismans guarded Romans (even children) as rings, pendants, tintinnabulum wind chimes and even paving stones. Such Fascinus phallic symbolism warded off evil from Roman homes. 🪷
Erotic Mythology ✊Roman oil lamp of the Loeschke IV type with an erotic decoration: A winged, legged phallus with a little phallus of its own.
Roman, mid-first century CE
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