{"id":555670,"date":"2026-04-06T19:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/?p=555670"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:18:13","slug":"dutch-museum-uncovers-8-inch-ancient-roman-phallic-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/?p=555670","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Museum Uncovers 8-Inch Ancient Roman Phallic Artifact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch museum discovered a carved-bone phallus attributed to the Ancient Romans during a massive inventory project. The find was made in a forgotten collection of 16,000 boxes at the Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen. The boxes originated from multiple storage depots and became the property of Gelderland, once part of the Roman Empire. With an \u20ac8 million project planned until 2025, only 300 boxes have been processed so far. The phallus sculpture, measuring 7.9 inches, is notable as Romans typically used stone or metal rather than bone for such items. The museum also unearthed luxury Roman tableware. Roman phallus imagery often symbolized fertility rather than sexuality, a belief shared across various cultures. The museum has not yet identified the type of bone used for the phallus carving, but emphasizes its significance among other valuable archaeological items discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch museum discovered a carved-bone phallus attributed to the Ancient Romans during a massive inventory project. The find was made in a forgotten collection of 16,000 boxes at the Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen. The boxes originated from multiple storage depots and became the property of Gelderland, once part of the Roman Empire. With an \u20ac8 million project planned until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/555671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}