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Un esempio basato su CIL VI 1375

While Photographic Collections as the Fotothek of the Bibliotheca Hertziana have many images of Inscriptions, or -Drawings of inscriptions, Epigraphic Databases contain editions of inscriptions with images. This different perspective is a decisive one. The Photographic collection approaches the description of a photograph looking at what it represents and describes it within a description of an object. It is partial to the documentation and to the object. Epigraphic editions, even those with a more olistic approach are biased towards the text or at the best the support on which this is inscribed. There is of course richness within the encounter of the respective valid and complementary persepectives

+Drawings of inscriptions, Epigraphic Databases contain editions of inscriptions with images. This different perspective is a decisive one. The Photographic collection approaches the description of a photograph looking at what it represents and describes it within a description of an object. It is partial to the documentation and to the object. Epigraphic editions, even those with a more holistic approach are biased towards the text or at the best the support on which this is inscribed. There is of course richness within the encounter of the respective valid and complementary perspectives.

Metrical inscriptions may be intuitively associated with a more deep connection between text and context, but as these are not my field of research I will develop my argument on an example which is not immediately relevant to the topic, and I am certain metrical inscriptions experts will not fail to draw their own parallel cases.

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Un esempio basato su CIL VI 1375

For none of these I am an expert, and for none I can claim results of any type.

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I claim only that there is no technological obstacle to a comprehensive linking across disciplines of information recorded and available online, which can be simply enriched with qualified links in the most common and widespread formats to deliver immediate important results with tools in in the hands of everyone.

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I claim only that there is no technological obstacle to a comprehensive linking across disciplines of information recorded and available online, which can be simply enriched with qualified links in the most common and widespread formats to deliver immediate important results with tools in the hands of everyone.

Getting quality content in quality formats, with relevant semantics online, is a much more urgent and challenging task than implementing large infrastructures or newer technologies.

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Searching for research

A "real" link in the Fotothek -verso
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I will try to show something which is not new, namely that different perspectives like those of a photographic collections and epigraphic databases, or the two worlds of knowledge available to researchers as "printed materials" and "online resources" building up in the web, are complementary: while both suffer the same issues (findability, accessibility, quality control, style) they both build knowledge by linking. Linkage in both ways from the web-based-and-digital world to the printed-material world are bidirectionaly faulty and hard to make without specific expertiese. FAIRwashing practices have made the complexity of this interrelation even more of an hinderance for researchers.

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I will try to show something which is not new, namely that different perspectives like those of a photographic collections and epigraphic databases, or the two worlds of knowledge available to researchers as "printed materials" and "online resources" building up in the web, are complementary: while both suffer the same issues (findability, accessibility, quality control, style) they both build knowledge by linking. Linkage in both ways from the web-based-and-digital world to the printed-material world are bidirectionally faulty and hard to make without specific expertise. FAIR-washing practices have made the complexity of this interrelation even more of an hindrance for researchers.

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The researcher (scholarly or not) is in facts the underhestimated missing link, not the software or the tools. Numerous collaborative tools, analog and digital, exist and are actively used, so no such tool, and no specific digital tool can actually claim to close any part of this gap.

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We still need a lot of work to be in a position to fight the mass censorship, to use Eco's words, to which the web contributes so vastly, now at the speed of a artificial intelligence, building false and unreliable contents vertiginously while real knowledge still and always will need painstaikingly long time and effort.

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My practical exercise will consist of a naïve step by step experiencial path among available documents online, to show how their availability alone, without connections is activated and made valuable only by connections, which are directly embedded in the text of this presentation as RDFa.

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The researcher (scholarly or not) is in facts the underestimated missing link, not the software or the tools. Numerous collaborative tools, analogue and digital, exist and are actively used, so no such tool, and no specific digital tool can actually claim to close any part of this gap.

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We still need a lot of work to be in a position to fight the mass censorship, to use Eco's words, to which the web contributes so vastly, now at the speed of a artificial intelligence, building false and unreliable contents vertiginously while real knowledge still and always will need painstakingly long time and effort.

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My practical exercise will consist of a naïve step by step experiential path among available documents online, to show how their availability alone, without connections is activated and made valuable only by connections, which are directly embedded in the text of this presentation as RDFa.

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Collecting data

I will start from a record in the Fototeca of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, follow its link into a website of the Photographic Collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, follow its link into a website of the Musei Capitolini and then move to the Epigraphic Datanbase Rome.

+>Epigraphic Database Rome.

I will follow links from there to explore how much information can be actually connected to get the best possible knowledge of a single object.

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It should become evident how there is more real and direct value for the exploration of the network of informations in a argumentative knowledge graph connecting in one specific and non unique way these resources than there can be from the extraction of value from quantitavely collected data.

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It should become evident how there is more real and direct value for the exploration of the network of information in a argumentative knowledge graph connecting in one specific and non unique way these resources than there can be from the extraction of value from quantitatively collected data.

The fragmentary nature of the data and the actual available data, scanty by nature, clashes in the end in front of the bibliographic barrier, that is, the innaccessibility of quality full texts of publications quoted as structured and unstructured data.

This presentation is in itself an example of one such path, that I would like to call an argumentative knowledge graph (AKG). This paper with a simple tool like RDFa Play can be directly visualized as data and it can be imported as is into a triplestore. Here I parse the HTML with vis.js for some additional example representation of the embedded data. Not to claim their usefulness, as often happens, but to claim their uselessness de facto, compared to the actual argument which makes its way across this network without any further visualization need.

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Collecting data

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Fototeca

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Photographic Collection

My starting point is an object catalogued in the Fotothek, with a bibliographical reference to CIL VI 1375: Statuensockel mit Inschrift des Caius Cestius, curated by Regina Deckers and Christoph Glorius at least since 2017 with updates until 2023.

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Landing on this page we learn about a marmor statue base with an inscription now at the Musei Capitolini, found +

Landing on this page we learn about a statue base with an inscription now at the Musei Capitolini, found vor der Pyramide, which is the Pyramid of Caius Cestius. @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@

Embedded Linked Open Data

maintained by Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and used by the consortium of photographic collections called Arbeitsgemeinschaft kunsthistorischer Bildarchive und Fototheken (AKBF).

- The injection into structured data for the website of the Catalog of the Fotothek + The injection into structured data for the website of the Catalogue of the Fotothek from this Thesaurus is implemented following the guidelines of the NFDI Culture Knowledge Graph and has been done by the author of this paper with a Following links to the Musei Capitolini

Following links to the Musei Capitolini - continued

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There is no link to any web-available record about this statue, which probably is simply not among the objects fotographed in the collection.

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There is no link to any web-available record about this statue, which probably is simply not among the objects photographed in the collection.

We do not know which one of the two inscriptions we have and how do they differ.

We are told that these two statue bases were in front of the Pyramid.

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Following links to the Musei Capitolini - continued

These two publications, however, are not linked as resources neither to a bibliographic catalogue record (yet).

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The Druckgraphic attesting this information may be exemplified by foto bhpd36472.

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The Druckgraphic attesting this information may be exemplified by photo bhpd36472.

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We all agree that there is no point in pointing fingers to missing information in web resources because their completeness is relative to scope and aim of the collected information, and we all know how much work it takes to collect and enter such information at a good quality standard. This page is indeed very rich in connections and primarily useful information to make ones way through other additional resources available.

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We all agree that there is no point in pointing fingers to missing information in web resources because their completeness is relative to scope and aim of the collected information, and we all know how much work it takes to collect and enter such information at a good quality standard. This page is indeed very rich in connections and primarily useful information to make one's way through other additional resources available.

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Foto bhpd71012 and negative d/7290

- The Statuensockel mit Inschrift recorded as OBJ 08054714 in the Fotothek contains an Ausschnitt from a foto of the object preserved at the Musei + The Statuensockel mit Inschrift recorded as OBJ 08054714 in the Fotothek contains an Ausschnitt from a photo of the object preserved at the Musei Capitolini with identifier SCU 02386, also a photo by Barbara Malter. The photo (bhpd71012) is probably related to negative d/7290 of the Capitolini, listed on that page.

The page is unfortunately not maintained any more and its accessibility is not very reliable, despite the precious information contained and published there. It is only thanks to Klaus E. Werner that I could consistently access this resource.

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Hence Accessibility and availability of the linked resources cannot be guaranteed for this resource and its content at the moment.

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Hence, accessibility and availability of the linked resources cannot be guaranteed for this resource and its content at the moment.

Musei Capitolini Here one can learn from an older record, by Maria Rosaria Stefanangeli, a bit more about the inventory number and we can see 4 different negatives. Actually, if we still have in mind Julia Domna, we can modify the semantically meaningfull URN and retrieve information about that as well. Maria Rosaria Stefanangeli, a bit more about the inventory number and we can see 4 different negatives. Actually, if we still have in mind Julia Domna, we can modify the semantically meaningful URN and retrieve information about that as well. SCU 00049, which actually also provides a view of the statue base from the top. Foto Col 07642

Musei Capitolini NCE 02386 has four images, documenting clearly the text and the three visible sides of the statue base.

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The image of the inscription at the front is actually marked as "Malter" and may be the same as bhpd71012 in the fototeca. -Five negatives are named and for four of them a urn can be constructed.

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    The image of the inscription at the front is actually marked as "Malter" and may be the same as bhpd71012 in the Fotothek. +Five negatives are named and for four of them a URN can be constructed.

    • MC B/1909
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      The XVII century inscriptions

      The last two images associated to the statue base in the website of the Musei Capitolini show also that there are additional texts on the same statue base, on each side. Both are dated 1681 within the text itself (MDCLXXXI). -The size of the fotos does not allow to read much.

      +The size of the photos does not allow to read much.

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      Editions of the XVII century inscriptions

      COS stands for Conservatori. PRI for Priore dei Capo Rioni, often corresponding, like in this case, to the "caporione del Rione I" (Monti).

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      These four magistrates where top figures of the Rome administration system between 1223 and 1870. They always signed together all completed projects. - Which activity was signed off on these monument is however not known to me and I have to give up investigating this further. +

      These four magistrates were top figures of the Rome administration system between 1223 and 1870. They always signed together all completed projects. + Which activity was signed off on these monuments is however not known to me and I have to give up investigating this further. However, the PDF referenced above gives us some more important details, placing the dating of these inscriptions between July and October of 1681.

      The following is a screenshot of the edition of these texts, kindly pointed out to me by Silvia Orlandi. Without this suggestion the present exercise would have had a very quick end.

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      More from the Musei Capitolini Website

      [no Sorbelloni] - (Cred. I, to. 35, c. 194). - But this base cannot be the other statue base, or base of the column which held a bronze statue, as the Musei Capitolini Catalogue tell us, because it does not have the incription. The actual base with inscription is there and can be found at SCU 01883 and the printed Catalogue claims it also carries on the sides inscriptions from 1681. But there are no photos of the sides. + But this base cannot be the other statue base, or base of the column which held a bronze statue, as the Musei Capitolini Catalogue tell us, because it does not have the inscription. The actual base with inscription is there and can be found at SCU 01883 and the printed Catalogue claims it also carries on the sides inscriptions from 1681. But there are no photos of the sides.

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      SCU 01883 and its later inscriptions

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This text, reported to be on the sides of the statue base which carries the text of C. Cestius testament, acquiring the land for the Pyramid, is revelatory in same way because the italics of this edition, as we have learned from the previous image from this book is the missing text. So, what Forcella reports on the side of the stone with the C. Cestius text as missing, and of which we have no image from the Musei Capitolini, matches exactly what we have on the images of the piece of the statue base without text for which the images on the website of the Musei Capitolini are actually available. This also explains why the record on the capitolini speaks of a part of the cippo perhaps.

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This text, reported to be on the sides of the statue base which carries the text of C. Cestius testament, acquiring the land for the Pyramid, is revelatory in same way because the italics of this edition, as we have learned from the previous image from this book is the missing text. So, what Forcella reports on the side of the stone with the C. Cestius text as missing, and of which we have no image from the Musei Capitolini, matches exactly what we have on the images of the piece of the statue base without text for which the images on the website of the Musei Capitolini are actually available. This also explains why the record on the Musei Capitolini Website speaks of a 'part' of the cippo, perhaps.

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The Second Statue Base has been cut in two parts

If this consideration was right, because we have dated the texts on the sides from the lists of the Conversatori, -we could say that the dating provided in the Museum catalogue for this text does not correspond, which would be however of minor gain. Also, it remains a mistery why the image of the text is related to the atrio of the musei, but we do not have photos of those, while there is documentation of what seems to be the back of that.

+we could say that the dating provided in the Museum catalogue for this text does not correspond, which would be however of minor gain. Also, it remains a mystery why the image of the text is related to the atrio of the musei, but we do not have photos of those, while there is documentation of what seems to be the back of that.

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The Second Statue Base has been cut in two parts

In the Musei Capitolini

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So, up to this point the web offered hints and reference information for an increasing number of aspects of information about the object from which I started this experiment. The Museum catalogue has wonderful pictures of the statues, but there are only thumbnails of the inscriptions and only of those which are considered more important. Also looking at the Museum with Google Arts & Culture does not help, +

Up to this point the web offered hints and reference information for an increasing number of aspects of information about the object from which I started this experiment. The Museum catalogue has wonderful pictures of the statues, but there are only thumbnails of the inscriptions and only of those which are considered more important. Also looking at the Museum with Google Arts & Culture does not help, even with the aid of the catalogue to find orientation. We are short of two halfs of the texts from the sides of the half basis with the textus altero.

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So, I failed the experiment, and instead of remaining online only, I went to the Musei Capitolini on Friday, 23.06.23 to find out. From the web resources one does not +

I failed the experiment. Instead of remaining online only, I went to the Musei Capitolini on Friday, 23.06.23 to find out. From the web resources one does not even know really where are the Statue Bases now. They are easy to find, however, in the Atrio/Galleria of the Palazzo Nuovo, reached from the underground passage. The following are my own images taken with my cellphone during that visit.

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In the Musei Capitolini - Forcella n. 198

Matched images for Forcella n. 198

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I have tried to match the images with the commonest tools, and the result is hughly but provides the argument with a depiction of the integer texts.

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There is no database of inscriptions from Rome of this period as far as I know, otherways I could have contributed there if they did not know yet.

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I have tried to match the images with the commonest tools, and the result is ugly but provides the argument with a depiction of the integer texts.

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There is no database of inscriptions from Rome of this period as far as I know, otherwise I could have contributed there if they did not know yet.

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Matched images for Forcella n. 198

In the Musei Capitolini - the back halfs of the inscribed blocks

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Of course there is a statue also on top of the back half of the statue base on which we have seen Livia.

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There is a statue also on top of the back half of the statue base on which we have seen Livia.

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In the Musei Capitolini - the back halfs of the inscribed blocks

In the Musei Capitolini - the back halfs of the inscribed blocks

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We knew about this from the Musei Capitolini Website, we just did not have the statue. But because I had found the missing two halfs of the texts of 1698, +

We knew about this from the Musei Capitolini Website, we just did not have the statue. But because I had found the missing two halves of the texts of 1698, and I still had time, and I had paid the ticket, I went on searching, and I found also the back of the Statue base on which there is Julia Domna, it was not far.

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In the Musei Capitolini - Fasti Consulares

The Fasti Consulares

So, going to the Museum was very useful. All pieces of the bases could be found. Of course without knowing from the web-based searches what to look for, those would have remained supports for nice statues and nothing else.

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Of course the quality of my pictures is turistic and it does not even stand close to any sort of documentation fotography.

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Of course the quality of my pictures is turistic and it does not even stand close to any sort of documentation photography.

Now, we can go back to the record we started from, because there is another piece of information from the Fotothek's object "Statuensockel mit Inschrift des Caius Cestius", which can be explored, that is, the CIL reference.

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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) Online

while CIL 6 01375b is the text on statue basis composed of SCU 01883 and SCU 01032 if we accept the point above, or simply on an initial base 2.

The CIL text, composed and edited as Forcella edited its own corpus also tells us, with references, about the first movements of the two statue bases. - One would have to find those references, which would be interesting also to try to date the time at which the two bases where cut, in the XVIII or XIX century, in any case, after the inscriptions on the sides where produced and had performed their function at least for some time.

+ One would have to find those references, which would be interesting also to try to date the time at which the two bases were cut, in the XVIII or XIX century, in any case, after the inscriptions on the sides were produced and had performed their function at least for some time.

The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Website did not seam to have any relevant related materials at the time of checking it in the early summer of 2023.

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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) Online

The inscriptions on the Pyramid

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It is the edition in the CIL which gives us the most intersting information of course. Not the alternative viewers provided to look at it. The statue bases where found as Pope

It is the edition in the CIL which gives us the most interesting information of course. Not the alternative viewers provided to look at it. The statue bases were found as Pope Alexander VII restored the pyramid and excavated the area. With the help of Daniele Pellacani I could read the text of CIL which specifies that the excavation was done to dig out the base of the Pyramid (stylobate ). @@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@

The inscriptions on the Pyramid

This happened in 1663, as attested by the inscription on the Pyramid itself, depicted also in a Photograph by Cesare d'Onofrio in the - Fototeca. + Fotothek.

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The inscriptions on the Pyramid

Images related to the restoration of the Pyramid

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In facts the Fototeca has several other depictions of the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, before and after this renovation which digged to the +

In facts the Fotothek has several other depictions of the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, before and after this renovation which digged to the base of the pyramid.

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Images related to the restoration of the Pyramid

Viewer
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This first image is a cynotypie of the Pyramid, in a drawing earlier than the restoration, in the famous album by +

This first image is a cyanotype of the Pyramid, in a drawing earlier than the restoration, in the famous album by Heemskerck, Maarten van, Heemskerck-Album II, - dated in the Fotothek 1532/1536, more then a centurty ahead of the restoration. + dated in the Fotothek 1532/1536, more than a century ahead of the restoration. @@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@

Images related to the restoration of the Pyramid

- The second one, always easily accessible from the Online Catalog of the Fotothek, is by + The second one, always easily accessible from the Online Catalogue of the Fotothek, is by Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de and is dated there to 1569 @@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@

Images related to the restoration of the Pyramid

Images related to the restoration of the Pyramid - Restoration

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Many other images of the Pyramid are available and can be easily found in the catalogue of the Fotothek, or simply using a search engine. The following example depicts exaclty the restoration which unhearted the statue bases with the inscriptions.

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Many other images of the Pyramid are available and can be easily found in the catalogue of the Fotothek, or simply using a search engine. The following example depicts exactly the restoration which unearthed the statue bases with the inscriptions.

Images related to the restoration of the Pyramid - Restoration

NUOVO TEATRO DELLE FABRICHE, ET EDIFICII... 1665

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The collection of etchings is available online as such, for example in the Bibliotheca Hertziana Digital Library but also as The collection of etchings is available online as such, for example in the Bibliotheca Hertziana Digital Library, but also as a digital edition which comes with a digital map of the places depicted by the etchings in the book.