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Caligula movie online new6/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Paolo Salvatori of Italy’s elite art theft squad, whose investigations led to the mosaic’s return. “For us it’s a great satisfaction today to see the mosaic in this museum,” said Maj. The mosaic has been installed in the museum next to two other marble fragments salvaged from Caligula’s ships, and was put on display on Thursday. “If you look at it from an angle, you can still see traces of a ring from a cup bottom,” said Daniela De Angelis, the director of the Museum of the Roman Ships in Nemi, referring to the piece’s modern use. Recovered from underwater wreckage in 1895, the mosaic was later lost for decades, only to re-emerge several years ago as a coffee table in the living room of a Manhattan antiques dealer. It was crafted in the first century for the deck of one of two spectacularly decorated ships on Lake Nemi that the Emperor Caligula commissioned as floating palaces. ![]() NEMI, Italy - If stones could speak, the mosaic unveiled recently at an archaeological museum just south of Rome would have quite the tale to tell.
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