Busacca Gallery

Super rare this one somehow survived without getting broken. Fantastic looking yellow Art Deco Hose tool. It looks like a Sexual dildo But it's not. Antique Pottery Ceramic Water Sprinkler Head Nozzle. Garden lovers I've never seen one of these before and I have been in the business for a long time. An Ancient funny Roman inscription That was found on a wall in Pompeii, "Hie habitat felicitas" (here dwells happiness). The Greeks regularly built a shrine which they called "Herm" The worship of the phallus has existed since the Stone Age, and was particularly prevalent during the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age. Phallus reliefs on buildings on such sites are also believed to have been apotropaic devices to ward off evil. The Romans were deeply superstitious and often introduced phallus-related components as architectural pieces and domestic items. Phallic architecture became prominent in ancient Egypt and Greece, where genitalia and human sexuality received a high degree of attention. The ancient Greeks honored the phallus and celebrated phallic festivals. The Greco-Roman deity Priapus was worshiped as a god of fertility, depicted with a giant phallus in numerous public architectural pieces. In Hinduism, the Hindu trimurthi represents Brahma, the creator, Vishnu, the preserver and Shiva, the destroyer. Shiva, the main deity in India, is both destroyer and is stated to also include his role of creation; this creation role is represented by the phallic symbol, known as lingam. The linga, or phallus, is a common feature of Hindu temples across India, engrained as reliefs or other forms.

Phallus Symbol / Any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallic_architecture

Phallic architecture consciously or unconsciously creates a symbolic representation of the phallus. Buildings intentionally or unintentionally resembling the human penis are a source of amusement to locals and tourists in various places around the world. Deliberate phallic imagery is found in ancient cultures and in the links to ancient cultures found in traditional artifacts. The ancient Greeks and Romans celebrated phallic festivals and built a shrine with an erect phallus to honor Hermes, messenger of the gods. Those figures may be related to the ancient Egyptian deity Min who was depicted holding his erect phallus. Figures of women with a phallus for a head have been found across Greece and Yugoslavia. Phallic symbolism was prevalent in the architectural tradition of ancient Babylon. The Romans, who were deeply superstitious, also often used phallic imagery in their architecture and domestic items. The ancient cultures of many parts of the Far East, including Indonesia, India, Korea and Japan, used the phallus as a symbol of fertility in motifs on their temples and in other areas of everyday life.