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Stripped
down entirely
on this side.
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Here
you can see Ruby
and our new Italian friend,
who took an interest in
speaking to Ruby for quite
a long time indeed...
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I
still wonder why this
particular archway was
completely walled in. It
struck me as strange
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Another
concentric
wall seems to ring around
the first; combing to make
the structure a full
ellipse at one time, long
long ago.
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A
more unadorned and
stripped down backside
with more filled in
archways ...
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Even
the iron rods
that adjoin between
adjacent stones have
been removed for new
construction projects
long ago.
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The
Colosseum is undergoing
considerable reconstruction
right now, and this slowly
collapsing wall surely
illustrates the need for
us to all care for our
treasures of antiquity.
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Where
once a Roman cross
was inlaid into the stone,
only now be there the
negative space from
which it was removed.
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Sitting
next to the
Colosseum we have
three fantastic columns
from what must have been
a wonderful temple.
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