#statue

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Santo Tirso, Portugal.

[thecordedbed]

A lost-wax bronze sculpture of Apollo in the pose of an archer; one of the first large-scale bronzes to be excavated at Pompeii. Most of it was found in three large fragments in 1817 just north of the forum. The right foot, right hand and the left arm were found over 300 metres away in 1818. Markings on a pedestal in the colonnaded courtyard of the Temple of Apollo match the position of the statue's feet exactly, demonstrating that it had originally stood there, a pair to the bronze figure of Diana discovered in 1817.

The location of the statue at the time of its discovery may be explained by the fact that the temple was undergoing repairs at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, with the statue moved for safekeeping for the duration.

The statue was reconstructed in 1825, again in 1860, and conserved in 2009. The original is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, with a replica on site at Pompeii.

See

Carroll, M. and Godden, D. 2000 'The Sanctuary of Apollo at Pompeii: Reconsidering chronologies and excavation history'. American Journal of Archaeology 104/4, 743-54

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[greenlight20]

Erlian Kissing Dinosaurs in Xilin Gol

Erlian Kissing Dinosaurs in Xilin Gol

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

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(via All sizes | 11-SOPHIA-DE-MELO-BREYNER-3 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

[ooscar88]

The Urfa man, also known as the Balıklıgöl statue, is an ancient human shaped statue found during excavations in Balıklıgöl near Urfa, in the geographical area of Upper Mesopotamia, in the southeast of modern Turkey. It is dated c. 9000 BC to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and was considered as "the oldest naturalistic life-sized sculpture of a human"

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Statue, 2009