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Description: | An unusual sub-rectangular object, possibly a crude early Roman imperial period fist and phallus amulet, perhaps even an individually crafted object based upon this object type. The images provided (see notes, below) show an object with one shorter edge rounded and the other perhaps formerly squared (it has since suffered losses as a result of old damage). Unfortunately, the identification provided with the illustrations did not give a material for this object. One can identify four fingers crudely and irregularly delineated on the 'fist', but no presence of the thumb, perhaps due to the old damage mentioned. The fist is 12mm long and 17.5mm wide. Beyond the fist is a raised 'cuff', 7mm in length. Comparison with other examples (see notes, below) shows the presence of some sort of cuff on this object type, although none have similar irregular diagonal and transverse incisions (see image, right). Beyond the cuff the object becomes convex, retaining its flat underside. The 'phallus' is slightly thicker than the main body of the artefact over a length of c. 13mm. Its five tranverse incisions are bizarre. Stranger still are the two conical protrusions emanating from the centre of the uppermost face of the artefact, the one bearing away from the other at a slight angle. In the centre of a complete fist and phallus amulet one would expect to find a large attachment hole, instead of this element (which is perhaps a plug). On this object it appears that a lip on the reverse face at the phallus end would have provided a means of attachment, with that end uppermost. There is currently only one other object on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database - PAS ref. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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