Epic Halloween costume if I had anywhere to wear it.
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Chapps
There's always one of these guys at a party.
Bronze tintinnabulum depicting a polyphallic version of the god Mercury. Little bells would have hung from the right and left phalli emerging from his petasos (hat), driving away restless ghosts and the evil eye. 🏺 1/
1st c. CE, #Pompeii. #MANN
📸 me
Bronze tintinnabulum depicting a polyphallic version of the god Mercury. Little bells would have hung from the right and left phalli emerging from his petasos (hat), driving away restless ghosts and the evil eye. 🏺 1/
1st c. CE, #Pompeii. #MANN
📸 me
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