Bread dildo  

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The bread dildo (Ancient Greek: ὀλισβοκόλλιξ, olisbokollix) is a dildo prepared using bread, allegedly made in the Greco-Roman era around 2,000 years ago. Alternately, it may be a metaphorical joke based on the shape of a loaf of bread.

Etymology

The Ancient Greek term kollix refers to bread, olisbos refers to a dildo, and the term olisbokollix is found as a hapax legomenon in the Ancient Greek lexicon of Hesychius "written in the fifth century A.D."

History

Oikonomides claims to identify three different red-figure paintings as depictions of "bread dildos":

• A "fragment from a red-figured cup now in Berlin," depicting a woman carrying a vase full of phalli. Oikonomides claims he is not the first to identify these as olisbokollikes, however, the source cited does not mention it.
• A belly amphora painting by the Flying Angel Painter, now in the Petit Palais, Paris, depicting a woman holding a "phallos-bird" and uncovering a jar or basket of phalli (right).
• A vase-painting by Nikosthenes now in the British Museum, depicting a woman using two "phalli-shaped objects".

See also

• Food and sexuality