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Are they sure it was definitely the same author? Maybe Secundinus saw the insult and carved a big dick in response.

Classically, a phallic representation can disrupt a curse or evil eye. After all, how can you maintain an evil eye when you see a big honking cock in your field of view? It’s like a bad vibe disrupter.

Read more about the “fascinating” magic of big fake dicks in antiquity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinus

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>Are they sure it was definitely the same author?

Perhaps there is a better analysis available, but the lines of the phallus appear to me to have been cut by the same author of the letters in the words.

Besides that, having dated an archeology student who left their interesting books around, I seem to remember there being a standard for identifying the cut of these objects. Perhaps it was more easily verified than we might think.

What we can be sure of is that, whatever happened, it played out in wood thousands of times.

Somebody had to be really hard-core to do it in stone.

(Apologies for the doubles-entendres! Really, they write themselves.)

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