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Here's a sight to get archaeologists all shook up - a 1,900 year old Roman bust that bears a striking resemblance to Elvis. The quiffed up stone head is thought to have graced a tomb in about 100 AD. It is set to fetch up to

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Well, since my baby left me,

I found a new place to dwellium.

It's down at the end of Via Solitaria,

At Heartbreak Hospitium...

 

-- Nephele

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:thumbsup:

 

Yes, and no doubt got fat on roman 'burgers, shooting his troupe of actors with an arrow in despair at their rubbish performance.... Whilst an exasperated lictor tells the senators that Elivisus has left the building...

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And who could ever forget Elvis Elvisorum's "Tu nihil aliud nisi canis venaticus es." ?

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Salve, Amici.

Even if the resemblance is not so striking, check out this quiff:

 

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This is Flavius Iulius Constantius II, second son of Constatine the Great, in the obverse of a bronze coin minted in Alexandria circa 351-354, with the inscription "D(ominus) N(oster) CONSTANTIVS NOB(ilissinus) CAES(ar)" ("Our Lord, Constantius, most noble Caesar").

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This is Flavius Iulius Constantius II, second son of Constatine the Great, in the obverse of a bronze coin minted in Alexandria circa 351-354, with the inscription "D(ominus) N(oster) CONSTANTIVS NOB(ilissinus) CAES(ar)" ("Our Lord, Constantius, most noble Caesar").

 

Or Danny Zuko as he was known as at the time.

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From the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the image in this coin's obverse has been dubbed:

 

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The "Nero Elvis".

 

Inscription: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG(ustus) GERM(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) TR(ibunicia) P(otestae) IMP(erator) P(ater) P(atriae).

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