✨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.
Giddy up, giddy up babe 🎶
#FannyFriday #PhallusThursday #Pompeii #GreekRomanArt #ancientRome @phistorians
✨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
Achilles is doing it in the Herakles position like the demigod he is in this piece of classical reception 👌
#Briseis and #Achilles, likely by Jacques Joseph Coiny, 1798 CE
✨A monument of Delos ✨
If you’ve ever wondered where the Roman fascination for phalluses came from, look no further than Delos. The Greek island is home to some monumental phallic sculptures dedicated to the god of wine and revelry, Dionysus.
This particular example is enhanced by the plinth which is decorated with a relief of a creature part cock and part phallus!
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