Today I'm going to post the Warriors of Riace, recuperated from the sea by an amateur scuba in 1972. Very little in known about them, where were they directed at the time of the shipwreck, and where were they coming from. They are made of bronze, but the lips and the nipples are made of copper or lead, to give the pink colour, the eyelashes are ivory, the eyes of glass and limestone and the teeth are covered with silver.The bodies are 2 meters tall, completely naked to show a powerful musculature. They are now preserved in the Museum of Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria and are well worth the trip. On black please
@robz@gardenfolk@golftragic@777margo@suzanne234 it is a fantastic story and now they are exposed in a beautiful museum. We had never been there because it’ s at the very top of the “boot” but they alone are worth the trip. And then there is the sea, the mountains, the archeological sites. Nice discovery
@taffy The secret reason to portray only half of his face is that he misses one eye, lost in the sea during the centuries he spent there! but they are indeed marvellous.
