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Marcus Aurelius Armor detail

It's easy to forget that it's stone that they carved.

The google translation: the head belongs to the latter type of portraits of Marcus Aurelius, Imperator 38. The facial features and details of the beard have been softened by an acid cleaning to eliminate the concretions due to the landfill. the head of Medusa, the candelabra, the griffins and the palmette on the breastplate, grow a date the rest of the statue of the Flavian dynasty

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Uploaded on May 13, 2011
Taken on April 6, 2011