Dionysus and his erect penis depicted on 2,500-year-old bone stylus found in Sicily

A dirt-covered bone tool shaped like a grumpy man with a phallus.

Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The exquisite workmanship helps date the artifact to the fifth century B.C., when the island was a Greek colony.

"This stylus truly represents a unique example in the archaeological landscape of the time," Daniela Vullo, head of the Superintendency for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Caltanissetta, the municipality where the artifact was found, said in a translated statement.