2004-09-05

orichalcum: (Default)
2004-09-05 04:30 pm

The kind of sentence that can get misconstrued

Offerings to the temple at Pyrgi included two phallic perfume bottles, representations of uteri, and baby's heads.

I mean, of course, _clay_ baby's heads. (Standard ancient religious practice was to offer up a representation of whatever body part you wanted healed, and I think that's what's going on here; it's a fertility cult.)