This 2,000-year-old Roman dildo is probably... not that

[pesco]

Originally published at: This 2,000-year-old Roman dildo is probably… not that | Boing Boing

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[anon33932455]

I’m glans they got that cleared up.

[doogly]

Sometimes a drop spindle is just a drop spindle.

[Shuck]

The drop spindle identification sounds more likely, though I wonder if the creator didn’t deliberately make it a little more phallic looking because it amused them…

[erroneus]

Why not both?

[brokenwords]

They must know because they tried.

[ephoph]

And their name they were known by was The Loneliest Drop Spindle Maker.

[euansmith]

“Let the beat Spindle DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRop!”

[teknocholer]

@pesco

However, avid yarn spinner Linsey Duncan-Pitt believes that it’s actually a Scottish dealgan or farsadh, a “drop spindle” used to produce fabric by hand.

This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists

Originally published at: This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists | Boing Boing …

Well, you two fight it out among yourselves.

This was discussed in detail in the earlier topic. The drop spindle idea was pretty thoroughly debunked. The video you posted shows something entirely different from the Roman artifact.

This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists

The problem with that theory is that we know exactly what Roman drop spindles looked like. Spindle whorls are one of the more common artefact from the Bronze Age on, so every archaeologist working in this area and time period is familiar with them. And unfortunately this isn’t what a Roman spindle would look like. It was much narrower, the weight being provided by a stone or pottery (or in the case of the Romans, often lead) spindle whorl, rather than by the extending width of the wooden shaft. …

This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists

Only twenty minutes to go, but I just wanted to add that the term for a device used for darning is a darning egg. A quick google shows many tools like this. [image] It’s not much of a stretch to imagine the handle carved into a phallus as a bit of Roman drollery.

So I’m going with it being a Roman multitool, so to speak, at least until @Doctor_Faustus confirms the possibility of it being a ritual object.

[MotoGuzzi]

Moral of the story: just because you ardently wish for something to be an ancient Roman dildo, doesn’t mean it actually was one back in ancient Rome. But, it always can be a dildo now, if you want it hard enough.

[mspie500]

Sure, it’s “not” a dildo and the people who owned it were just “roommates”.

[hecep]

[File Under: Sometimes a cigar is a dildo] Any object that is longer than it is wide and (assumably) smooth enough can be used as a dildo. Recently unearthed pagan statuette? Dildo. Roman Imperial triumph baton? Dildo. Wooden pestle used to prepare Marcus Aurelius’ garlic? Dildo.

[Franko]

@erroneus

Why not both?

right? maybe they were personally against unitask items WAAAAY before it was cool.