Winged, animal-shaped and multiple phalluses
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 95). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: Representative surviving Roman objects: 1st century CE; broader motif spans Roman antiquity
Region: Roman world
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1 CE to 100 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Amulets and bell ornaments remix phalluses into winged creatures, beasts and multi-directional forms.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
Protective phallic imagery appears in many varied portable and domestic objects.
What remains uncertain
Broad non-official material culture is a good candidate, but the current three museum objects do not establish working-class consumers or distinguish popular adoption from commercial iconographic convention.
Candidate-index family 9: Winged, animal-shaped and multiple phalluses
The workbook groups records 95 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: Representative surviving Roman objects: 1st century CE; broader motif spans Roman antiquity
Region: Roman world
Shortlist uncertainty: Broad non-official material culture is a good candidate, but the current three museum objects do not establish working-class consumers or distinguish popular adoption from commercial iconographic convention.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria