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Unfortunately, this is one of the few sites Roman sites I get to visit these days.

 

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guy also known as gaius

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First impression:

- A bas-relief depicting a war-scene

- of a battle between romans and gauls, since the latter fought practically naked

- at the side of a tomb

 

Let's google on that.

 

Auris

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Aurius:

 

Thank you for your impressions of this relief sculpture.

 

I couldn't tell the enemies by their weapons. (They look like the standard gladius.) The short hair of the enemy would make me lean against Celts or even Dacian.

 

 

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Another relief sculpture from the same location:

 

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guy also known as gaius

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Auris Arrectibus, on 29 Sept 2013 - 04:08, said:

Abduction of the Sabine women?

 

Auris

I hadn't thought of that, but could be.

 

Any thoughts where this site of Romanesque art is?

 

 

guy also known as gaius

 

 

P.S. I see you have Amsterdam listed as your home. Are you Dutch? Ik hou van Amsterdam.

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Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Made from artificial marble.

 

I don't think they are replicas of a roman bas-relief.

The one with the sabine women capture scene (raptio), one of the sculptures depicted looks like the one you can find at the base

of the raptio-sculpture in the Loggia delle Signotia (dei Lanzi) in Firenze, Italy. Made by Giambologna in 16th century and commissioned

by the Medici-family.

This scene - a man lifting a sabine women- is the same scene as the sculpture at the base as in the bas-relief. It couldbe inspired by a
sculpture in the roman era, but I doubt that.

 

The other one I could not find on the net, maybe the sabine men were murdered here.

 

Auris

 

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Auris Arrectibus, on 29 Sept 2013 - 04:08, said:

Abduction of the Sabine women?

 

Auris

I hadn't thought of that, but could be.

 

Any thoughts where this site of Romanesque art is?

 

 

guy also known as gaius

 

 

P.S. I see you have Amsterdam listed as your home. Are you Dutch? Ik hou van Amsterdam.

 

And yes, I'm Dutch and live in Amsterdam...

 

Ik hou ook van Amsterdam,

Auris

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Well done! (Goed gedaan!)

 

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is as close as I come to Ancient Rome these days (although the Getty Villa near Los Angeles is nice).

 

 

Maybe one day we can have a UNRV reunion there : :clapping:

 

 

guy also known as gaius

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I was over the weekend on a day trip to Cividale del Friuli. Was in for a surprise to see Julius Caesar still appreciated with fresh flowers at his statue, (apparently he founded the city)

 

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