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Bronx born Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity
New site: www.jamesdemilio.com
Swept up by politics these days, but I do post photos on ancient, medieval, and Christian art. Check @capitalsandmore.bsky.social for art only.
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To me (just my guess), it looks vaguely like a crocodile, but with a thick, powerful tail, resembling a python. It seems to be overcoming an African man with one leg in its jaws and the other trapped beneath its body. The tail is winding around his neck to suffocate him.
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Thanks! I do shoot RAW on the camera, but haven't done it on the phone. I'll try that.
For now, I try to wear dark shirts, maybe a vape.
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It's out of any expertise of mine, so I'm just passing along bits of their info, but all their exhibits (great range: terracotta figures, ceramics, epigraphs etc) are very informative, and the section on ships and underwater archaeology is well-developed.
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For the well-preserved figure, the museum info (they have lots of informative panels) suggests an ID with the consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus, victor in the 3rd Macedonian War. They relate the cloaked fragment to an early 3rd century BC type, but the actual bronzes could be later copies. Great place!
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Monopoli was packed with tourist groups from many different countries! That was even before the weekend. Conversano was very nice: the cherry festival was on.
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No, Bari. It's the porch of a small confraternity church.
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2/ Facing a lack of "standard assessments of students' civility" (I see a goldmine for education bureaucrats!), some colleges are "testing [a] task in which a student coordinates with two artificial intelligence-run avatars to tell a story."
You can't make this stuff up, or maybe a chatbot could.
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4/ In the same fraternal spirit, a plaque in Amiens Cathedral commemorates those of the 6th regiment, US Engineers, who died defending Amiens in March 1918. Another remembers the role of allied forces, alongside Italian partisans and the Roman people in the liberation of Rome. #MemorialDay
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3/ On this #Memorial Day, it's especially worth remembering the bonds forged between countries in the most difficult times and reflecting on the names of the dead, so many of which contain the stories of families of #immigrants from Italy, eastern and central Europe, and elsewhere who made America.
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2/On the same day in 1989, surviving members of the battalion returned to present a plaque thanking the people of Sherborne for their friendship and commemorating their comrades who died there or in the Normandy invasion and campaigns of the 7th Army Corps. #MemorialDay