January
09
/ 2016
The ancient Romans were obsessed with phallic images in art and architecture. Now, The Collection, a museum in Lincoln, England, will put on display a Roman phallus carved in stone that a family in Braceby, Lincolnshire, had used as a garden ornament for 20 years. The family has donated it after digging up the 15 inch (38 cm) long stone in 1995. They’re moving away and wanted the carving to remain in Lincolnshire. The phallus is pointing toward a figure that The Collection curator Anthony Lee told the BBC is either meant to represent a vagina or an evil eye. In ancient Rome phalluses often were depicted near the evil eye; the phallus was thought to give protection from it
