A GIANT phallic carving uncovered by archaeologists at a web site in Cordoba, southern Spain is believed to be one of many largest such finds courting from the Roman world.
Though depictions of the penis had been a typical theme used to symbolize fertility, deliver luck and chase away the evil eye, the crew digging on the Nueva Carteya web site consider this specific aid carving is one thing extra uncommon.
“It was frequent to put them on the facades of homes or represented on small amulets worn by troopers as a logo of virility, however not of akin to a dimension the one discovered now,” defined Andres Roldan from the Museum of Nueva Carteya and the professor main the excavation mission.
“We’re consulting the bibliography and, for the time being, now we have not discovered one in every of such dimensions,” he mentioned.
The aid carved on a limestone block measures near half a metre in size and is believed to have fashioned a cornerstone of a tower on a big constructing crowning the hill of the Roman settlement.
Officers from the Guardia Civil have been referred to as in to guard the positioning from curious onlookers and attainable looters.
The location at El Higueron was partially excavated through the Nineteen Sixties however archaeologists started engaged on the positioning once more this summer season.
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