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Sign
over the mainentrance
to the Vatican Museum
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See
my pictures of copies of this statue
in Rhodes,
Greece, and
The
original Laocoon Group,
from the 1st century BC. An
important scene from
Homer's Iliad; Laocoon
warned the Trojans of
the Greeks' deception ...
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concerning the Trojan
Horse. Laocoon and his children
were killed by
a serpent sent to silence
him, and so Troy fell.
See
my pictures from Troy,
Turkey, taken in June 2002.
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Sehmet,
from the 18th
dynasty. 1555 - 1340 BC.
Further
Description
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One
of the side entrances
(dedicated to Pius VII)
from the museum into the
main courtyard.
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Another
entrance into
the main courtyard of the
Vatican museum.
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Ruby
reads the inscriptions
under the large conifer
cone sculpture, and near
the carved peacock.
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