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In ancient Rome, a tintinnabulum (less often tintinnum) [1] was a wind chime or assemblage of bells. A tintinnabulum often took the form of a bronze ithyphallic figure or of a fascinum, a magico-religious phallus thought to ward off the evil eye and bring good fortune and prosperity. A tintinnabulum acted as a door amulet.
The tintinnabulum is one of the three physical signs that indicate that a church is a lesser basilica. The other two signs are the umbraculum (conopaeum) and a display of the papal symbol. [2] In the Middle Ages it served the practical function of alerting the people of Rome to the approach of the Pope during papal processions. [citation needed]
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Ancient Romans used tintinnabulum as a way to protect against the “evil or jealous eye,” he said. A photo shows the partially excavated tintinnabulum, a “magical” phallus-shaped wind chime.
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A tintinnabulum is a bell in a Roman Catholic Basilica. Tintinnabulum may also refer to: Tintinnabulum (Ancient Rome), a wind chime; Tintinnabuli, a music compositional style devised by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt "Tintinnabulum", a song on the album Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary by Karl Jenkins; Dendropsophus tintinnabulum, a species of frog