sculpture

Americana - Romulus and Remus in Rome Georgia

By: leelefever on December 2, 2006 - 1:28pm

Directly in front of the Rome, Georgia city hall is this is peculiar statue of the Italian Rome's founders Romulus and Remus, suckling away at their legendary caretaker.

The plaque under it reads:

This statue of the Capitoline Wolf, as a forecast of prosperity and glory, was sent from Ancient Rome to New Rome, during the consulship Benito Mussolini, in the year 1929.


Apparently the statue was hidden during World War II and replaced after the war.

 


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