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November 23, 2021 03:49 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/11/23/this-priceless-piece-of-caligulas-mosaic-floor-was-unknowingly-used-for-50-years-as-a-coffee-table-in-a-nyc-apartmen
This priceless piece of Caligula's mosaic floor was unknowingly used for 50 years as a coffee table in a NYC apartment
In the 1960s, New York City art dealer Helen Fioratti bought a lovely mosaic in Italy from a noble family. She turned the mosaic into a coffee table and used it for decades. Fifty years later, Fioratti was informed that the mosaic was actually a piece of floor from one of Roman emperor Caligula's party ships that sunk after he was assassinated in 41 AD. — Read the rest
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/11/23/this-priceless-piece-of-caligulas-mosaic-floor-was-unknowingly-used-for-50-years-as-a-coffee-table-in-a-nyc-apartmen
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