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Quiz: What ancient god does 'Bocca' represent?
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Titles 		Around Rome, Italy.
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Used 		Pentex K1000 and Canon ELPH - APS
Date 1999 - 2001
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400 black table cell bar.jpg The Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre, is the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. Construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus.


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it rome 34630_25.jpg 600 black table cell bar.jpg Panoramic photo mosaic of the Roman Forum, a small, rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome (above).


The Ancient church of St Mary built in the 5th century in the Forum, the church was partially destroyed in 847, rebuilt (left) and now called Santa Maria Nova (New St. Mary, or Santa Francesca Romana).
600 black table cell bar.jpg The Turtle Fountain is a fountain of the late Italian Renaissance, located in the Piazza Mattei. it rome 34630_21.jpg
it rome 34630_19.jpg 600 black table cell bar.jpg Very picturesque narrow streets of Rome (left).


Inside the he Pantheon, a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and built in about 126 AD (below). The Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 142 ft (43.3 m).
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it rome 34630_12.jpg 400 black table cell bar.jpg The National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy.
400 black table cell bar.jpg The Ponte Fabricio ("Fabricius' Bridge"), is the oldest Roman bridge in Rome, still in its original state and was built in 62 BC, it spans half of the Tiber River to Tiber Island.


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400 black table cell bar.jpg Bocca della Verità ("the Mouth of Truth") is an image, carved from marble, of a man-like face (above). It was believed, in the Middle Ages, that if one told a lie with one's hand in the mouth of the sculpture, it would be bitten off.

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Ruins of the Circus Maximus an ancient Roman chariot racing stadium. 		it rome 34630_06.jpg
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400 black table cell bar.jpg Ruins of the Circus Maximus. it rome 34630_05.jpg
it rome 34630_08.jpg 400 black table cell bar.jpg Ruins of the Circus Maximus.
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1225 black table cell bar.jpg Panoramic photos of the Roman Forum (above & below).

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Answer to Quiz ==> 'Bocca' represents the ancient god of the river Tiber.