• Remember that ancient Roman “dildo”? It might just be an old Roman drop spindle

    19 days ago - By Ars Technica

    Enlarge / This phallus-shaped object went viral last month, but it might not be an ancient Roman dildo after all.
    Odds are good you read at least one of the umpteen media stories last month about a possible 2,000-year-old "dildo" unearthed near the remains of a Roman auxiliary fort in the UK called Vindolanda. Well, it's either a dildo; a pestle used for grinding cooking, cosmetic, or medicinal ingredients; or something meant to be inserted into a statue and rubbed for good fortune. That's what the authors of a February paper in Antiquity concluded, anyway. But now we have another...
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