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413 - Roman Bronze Phallic Fertility Pendant
Roman
DATE 1st - 3rd century CE
AUTHOR Unknown (Roman) Italy
MEDIA Bronze
SIZE 4,5 x 3 cm
LOCATION Private collection
NOTES The phallus (or symbolic male genitals) represented masculinity and virility in Ancient Rome. These amulets where worn to ward off evil, increase a soldiers strength in battle and perhaps to titillate a prospective sexual conquest.
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