Ancient Details

The thing that's impossible not to take notice of in Italy, is how old everything is. From the smallest borgo (village, hamlet, burgh) to the largest citta (city), buildings that are hundreds, even thousands of years old surround you. This is the detail on a ring where one ties horses...

This is another ring, similar on the bottom but clearly whimsical on top. Although I'm not sure whimsy was their intent.

This sculpture was above a 2,500 year old Etruscan arch...

And this spike was found in the same village...

A section of street in Florence...
And perhaps the oldest of them all, Pompeii...
It seems as if the people who live among these artifacts and ancient buildings, don't even realize they do. To them, it's the norm. To us, it was quite amazing.


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1 YEAR AGO: Framed By Fake Fall
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