Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Just Another Day in the Eternal City: Via Appia Antica


At noon today yours truly was crossing the Via Appia Antica at Via Ardeatine (in front of Domine, Quo Vadis?) and this was the scene.

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  1. Ah yes that would be Rome all right!

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  2. Pasce oves meas.

    How very appropriate!

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  3. I had thought the sheep in the apse mosaic at Santa Cecilia in Trastevere were rather naively drawn... but now I see that the local breed of sheep do in fact look exactly like that! (As an Aussie, I'm used to seeing merinos, which have a very different shape - more wool, for a start.)

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