Wednesday, July 29, 2009







The Last four statues are bronzes from the Villa of Papyri The abode was owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, and it was situated halfway up Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. later the area was covered in volcanic ash and was not excavated until 1750-65 by Karl Weber.

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