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To: ETL; SunkenCiv; miss marmelstein

The first time I went to Pompeii in my late adolescence was in the mid-60s. I was touring that day with a couple of other “girls.” The docents would not let us into several of the rooms with mosaics because they were “improper” for young ladies back in the day.

I also remember being in an Italian museum on that trip, possibly the Naples Museum, where a museum guard demonstrated why some of the statues of gladiators, centaurs and fauns had a hole in the bronze where the male pee-pee should be. He had detachable bronze “parts” in his desk drawer that could be hooked (erectly) into those openings. He got a big kick out of the thought of embarrassing us, but we were history of art students and not so easily shocked.


34 posted on 11/06/2018 1:55:41 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde
He had detachable bronze “parts” in his desk drawer

Hah! So THAT's where King Missile got the idea!

38 posted on 11/06/2018 2:10:38 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Albion Wilde
The really scatty stuff is (or at least used to be) in a private area in the Naples museum. Michael Grant (and probably others) did a book about those exhibits.

45 posted on 11/06/2018 7:36:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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