Votive fertility Phalluses.

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Votive fertility Phalluses, from a sanctuary of Dionysos at Pineiada, one of which carries an inscription dedicated by Xenokrita, daughter of Agathon. These fertility symbols were used in Dionysiac festivals, processions and Dionysia was originally a rural festival in Eleutherae, Attica, exported to but initially rejected by the Athenians for which Dionysus punished the Athenians with a plague affecting the male genitalia, cured when the Athenians accepted the cult of Dionysus. c. 2nd Century BC. Diachronic Museum, Larissa.

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