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| - | "The "[[liberal]]" attitudes of the [[Classical World]] were based, not on [[decadence]] or [[licentiousness]], but on a [[rational]] response to the importance of [[fertility]]." --[[Catherine Johns]] in ''[[Sex: An Intimate Companion]]'' (2001) | ||
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| The combination of [[phallus]] and hanging bells ([[fascinum]] and [[crepitacula ]] or [[tintinnabula]]) was used as an [[apotropaic]] [[talisman]] to ward of evil, the Roman name for the male organ was the [[fascinum]] meaning favourable or propitiatory, thus symbolizing both fecundity and protection.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160218044222/http://creadm.solent.ac.uk/custom/rwpainting/ch5/ch.5.2.html] | The combination of [[phallus]] and hanging bells ([[fascinum]] and [[crepitacula ]] or [[tintinnabula]]) was used as an [[apotropaic]] [[talisman]] to ward of evil, the Roman name for the male organ was the [[fascinum]] meaning favourable or propitiatory, thus symbolizing both fecundity and protection.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160218044222/http://creadm.solent.ac.uk/custom/rwpainting/ch5/ch.5.2.html] | ||
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The combination of phallus and hanging bells (fascinum and crepitacula or tintinnabula) was used as an apotropaic talisman to ward of evil, the Roman name for the male organ was the fascinum meaning favourable or propitiatory, thus symbolizing both fecundity and protection.[1]
A bald, bearded, horse-tailed satyr balances a winecup on his erection, on an Attic red-figured psykter, ca. 500-490 BC
This statue of Mercurius (Pompeii tintinnabulum)[2] is the fourth object from the excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae I wish to highlight. The previous three were The Satyr And The Goat[3], the Priapus[4] from the House of the Vettii and an example of the so-called tintinnabulua[5], bronze phallic wind chimes, also called fascina.
At least, I hope I'm right in assuming this comes from the collection of Pompeian erotica.
By the 1750s the Grand Tour was focused on the excavations at the Herculaneum (from 1731) and Pompeii (from 1764). Charles Cochin's Observations upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, an early report of the frescoes at Herculaneum, was unfavourable.
