Three much more sophisticated (perhaps snooty!) Roman facepots in the (now relocating) Museum of London, for

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This naive-looking face pot fragment doesn't look so innocent up the other way. For the Romans, the phallus was a protective symbol but, like today, it was also used for humour. It's in the Museum of London, which is currently relocating to west Smithfield

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