A girthy stone penis sculpture recently uncovered at an ancient Roman site in Spain measures about 18 inches (46 centimeters) long, which could make it the largest Roman phallus carving ever discovered.
Archaeologists uncovered the lengthy sculpted shaft at El Higuerón, a site near the town of Nueva Carteya in the Córdoba region of Spain.
The Historical Museum of Nueva Carteya, which is leading the excavation of the site, shared the find in an August 19El Higuerón dates to the fourth century BCE and was originally an Iberian settlement before it was overtaken and built upon by the Romans, who conquered the region in 206 BCE. Researchers suspect that the eye-catching penis artwork was carved into a stone that was once proudly displayed at the base of a tower built by the Romans.culture; they were often used to ward off bad luck or to help improve virility. As a result, phallus carvings are commonly found at ancient Roman sites.
However, the newly uncovered phallus has raised eyebrows among researchers due to its above-average size. "This one is unusually large," Andrés Roldán Díaz, an archaeologist at the University of Extremadura in Spain and director of the Historical Museum of Nueva Carteya, told Spanish news outlet
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