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  2. Category : Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre

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  3. Museiliha inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Museiliha inscription is a first-century AD Roman boundary marker that was first documented by French orientalist Ernest Renan.Inscribed in Latin, the stone records a boundary set between the citizens of Caesarea ad Libanum (modern Arqa) and Gigarta (possibly present-day Gharzouz, Zgharta, or Hannouch), hinting at a border dispute.

  4. Category : Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre

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  5. Louvre - Wikipedia

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    The sculpture department consists of works created before 1850 not belonging in the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman department. [95] The Louvre has been a repository of sculpted material since its time as a palace; however, only ancient architecture was displayed until 1824, except for Michelangelo's Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave.

  6. Diana of Versailles - Wikipedia

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    The Diana of Versailles in the Louvre Galerie des Caryatides that was designed for it. The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (French: Artémis, déesse de la chasse) is a slightly over-lifesize [1] marble statue of the Roman goddess Diana (Greek: Artemis) with a deer. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. [2]

  7. Boscoreale Treasure - Wikipedia

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    The Boscoreale Treasure is a large collection of exquisite silver and gold Roman objects discovered in the ruins of the ancient Villa della Pisanella at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, southern Italy. Consisting of over a hundred pieces of silverware , as well as gold coins and jewellery, it is now mostly kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris, although ...

  8. Statue of the Tiber river with Romulus and Remus - Wikipedia

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    In 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon, the statue of the Nile was returned to the Vatican. However, the statue of the Tiber was offered by the pope Pius VII to the French king Louis XVIII and remained in the Louvre. The image of the statue of the Tiber was widely circulated and it became the subject of numerous marble or bronze replicas.

  9. Nazareth Inscription - Wikipedia

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    Violatio sepulchri ('tomb violation') was a crime under Roman law, as noted by Cicero (d. 43 BC). The Nazareth Inscription prescribes the death penalty for the offense. [ 13 ] A tomb at which funeral rites had been duly performed became a locus religiosus , belonging to the divine rather than to the human realm.