Archaeologists unearth lucky penis pendant near Hadrian’s Wall

[quote]its smooth surface suggesting the wearer touched it often for good luck

Yeah, that's the reason I touch dick too.

I was going to say, it would surely be better luck if their own phalluses were being touched.

Maybe they used to hand these things out to school kids with the injunction, "Touch that instead. It's better luck and you won't go blind."

Parts of your own body as lucky amulets doesn't work, you need to externalise it in some way for the magical thinking to kick in. But the Romans were naughty as hell, so I'm sure their dicks were touched early and often, by themselves and others, for luck and pleasure.

You're not "lucky" if your dick's that small.

Back when folks appreciated real craftsmanship!

My ancestor.

This sounds like the premise for the best M. R. James story ever.

Weren't small dicks the aesthetic preference in Roman times?

Yes, they were. Greeks' preference, too.

An ancient puny cocklet.

I assume it is uncut?

[quote]Weren't small dicks the aesthetic preference in Roman times?

Aesthetic preference, yes...but in sculpture.

In other forms, even other forms of sculpture, big dicks and comically big dicks were as fashionable as ever. The depiction of a man with a more than super sized dick (or was it a normal dick with a teeny tiny man attached?) was always good for a laugh atop a terracotta oil lamp or an amulet, for example.

Two amulets of the same sort as in OP's image from a current auction in Germany...

Another at auction, Greek, with a stone intaglio depicting a man carrying a giant phallic herm (a stone marker in a columnar form.)

There's a famous mural in Pompeii of a man putting his oversized cock on a scale as if to say it was worth it's weight in gold.

R13, wow, the price of that one is so much more than the two at R12.

[quote] fist-and-phallus

My two favorites!

That was actually my nickname in the clubs.

Didn’t save the tree , so unlucky.

It wasn't carved out of a tree, but out of jet. Which is fossilised tree from the Jurassic, sometimes called "black amber" for that reason.

r14 Yes, the fresco depicts Priapus, the Greek – and later Roman – god of prosperity and good fortune. Notice the enormous foreskin as well, which covers his entire knob and then some. He's weighing fruit and gold (abundance) against his cock (fertility). Interestingly, the balls are normal size.

"This sounds like the premise for the best M. R. James story ever."

Or a Brady Bunch episode.

Herm.

It can't be a lucky penis pendant if some dude lost it 2000 years ago or died wearing it.

I'd bet good money some bored, horny soldier trying sticking that up his pee-pee hole at least once when he was jerking off. Just to see what it felt like.