#fascinum

[thomasturnerillustration]

Happy long weekend party people!!! :')

[floralbearies]

Fascinum by Offthemap

I made it a paper doll themed bind!

[honorthegods]

The Vindolanda Trust

Vindolanda Excavations | Friday find Our fabulous Friday find for the Period 2 team at Vindolanda is a phallus pendant made from jet. It wa

But wait - there's a follow-up post! - apparently in answer to one of the comments to the above post:

The Vindolanda Trust

Roman Vindolanda | Souvenirs With the jet phallus uncovered last week making the national and international news today we thought it might

Here's a video which briefly mentions this find...and another object which may possibly be even more interesting:

For background on the fascinum/fascinus as a Roman apotropaic element: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinus

EDIT: Turns out there are methods to determine the provenance of the jet used in the amulet!

Provenance groups in a Roman jet jewelry collection at Aquincum (Budapest, Hungary) and comparison with jet and jet-like gemstones

Jet and jet-like gemstones are found in graves from the Neolithic, but they became particularly popular during the Bronze Age and the Roman

[junkverse]

back in undergrad I used to make ceramic fascinum. someday I'll make em again (lord willing and the creek don't rise)

[kuutamosonaatti]

Roman Winged Fascinum Amulet

Pompeii, Italy

[tobacconist]

fraktur type was invented to prevent documents from being read by demons much the same way we today use distorted text to fool AI. 

but yall arent ready for that conversation

[ancientstuff]

The Roman Penises Carved into Hadrian’s Wall

Across the length of the wall corridor, and at military installations, 59 known etchings of male genitalia, otherwise known as a fascinus or fascinum were carved at various locations to symbolise the male phallus.

Well, here’s a reason to visit Hadrian’s wall. Road trip!

[astral-witch]

fas·ci·nate

Origin:

Latin: (noun) fascinum: spell, witchcraft; also a phallus shaped amulet worn in Ancient Rome and thought to have magical powers

Latin: (verb) fascinare, fascinat-: bewitched

English: (verb) fascinate: bewitch (late 16th Century); fascinating: bewitching, spellbinding, enchanting

late 16th century (in the sense ‘bewitch’): from Latin fascinat- ‘bewitched’, from the verb fascinare, from fascinum ‘spell, witchcraft’.

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