Most Recent stop made by the ARCH OF BAAL was Florence, Italy, from March 27 – April 27, 2017,
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With the G7 Culture Summit just around the corner, a copy of the Monumental Arch of Palmyra has been installed in Piazza della Signoria from March 27 to April 27, 2017.
FIRST ever G7 Cultural Summit (formally the G8 but Russia was dropped). The culture ministers from US, Germany, Japan, France, UK, Italy, and Canada were in attendance. |
The installation coincides with the G7 Summit, held in Palazzo Vecchio on March 30 and 31, 2017, as a symbol of the rebirth and reconstruction of humanity’s cultural heritage, continually at risk from the dangers of humankind and nature.
Concurrently, the Palazzo Vecchio is hosting a three-way dialogue between the Chimera di Arezzo, an Etruscan bronze statue found in Arezzo in 1553, a sketch of the Chimera by Baccio Bandinelli and Bandinelli’s bust of Cosimo I. The three pieces will go on display in the Sala di Leone X, where Cosimo I requested the bronze statue be displayed after its discovery. Like the Arch of Palmyra, the Chimera will remain on display until April 27, 2017, before being returned to its permanent home in the Florence Archaeological Museum.
Events, Rituals and Holidays that coincide with this exhibit:
- 3/20 Spring Equinox orgies, oral, anal, vaginal, any age (male or female, human or animal)
- 3/21 Illuminati Human Sacrifice Night
- 3/28 eve to 3/29 eve: Elaphebolion Noumenia–Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. [Elaphebolion 1]
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3/30 [Elaphebolion 3]
- 3/31 eve to 4/1 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Hermes–Day to honor the divine feminine and divine masculine in harmony. [Elaphebolion 4] (again, the Ying and the Yang).
- 3/31: Full moon–Storm Moon at 8:37 am. Use this month’s moon phase to celebrate balance, rebirth, and renewal.
- 4/1 April FOOLS Day
- 4/1: Veneralia–Old Roman festival celebrating Venus (Goddess of Peace) vanquishing Mars (God of War) with love. She nurtures peace, friendship, and love; and punishes war-mongers, hate-mongers, and false friends and lovers. [Roman calendar] (Beware Christians… this is meant for you. Christians will be imprisoned and killed as “hate Mongers” for not accepting the NEW WORLD PAGAN ORDER! )
- 4/2 eve to 4/3 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa) – as protector of wild animals, vegetation, and places. [Elaphebolion 6] (for all you pantheists out there who worship nature.)
- 4/4 eve to 4/5 eve: Asklepieia–Old Greek festival honoring Asklepios, God of healing, and Hygieia, Goddess of health. [Elaphebolion 8] (WHO? WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, THAT IS WHO, you know the ones that are killing you with “kindness”.)
- 4/5 eve to 4/10 eve: City Dionysia–Old Greek festival honoring God Dionysos as patron of drama, poetry, music, and inspiration. Actors performed sacred drama, poets recited hymns, musicians played instruments, singers sang songs, and dancers danced. [Elaphebolion 9-13]
- 4/7: World Health Day–Day to pray for healing of all those chronically and seriously ill; day to advocate for adequate health care for all. [Day the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) was founded in 1948.] [For information on World Health Day, see World Health Organization website.] [For information on the World Health Organization, see World Health Organization website.]
- 4/9 PALM SUNDAY
- 4/11-4/18 PASSOVER
- 4/14 GOOD FRIDAY, blood, human sacrifice, male only (adult)
- 4/14 to 4/25 (Icelandic 4/20, Old Icelandic 4/13): Old Norse Summer Days Feast–Offerings were made to the Deities (particularly Odin, Thor, and Freyr) for success, peace, and plenty.
- 4/16 EASTER SUNDAY, blood, human sacrifice, male or female (adult)
- 4/11 (2:08 a.m. EDT): Full Moon (White/Virgin Moon). [a/k/a Aries Full Moon]
- 4/19 Blood Sacrifice To The Beast. Fire sacrifice is required on April 19.
- 4/21-26 Abduction, ceremonial preparation, and holding of sacrificial victim
- 4/22: Earth Day Earth Day–Day to honor the Earth and to meditate on Deity manifesting as Mother Earth/GAIA. [For information about Earth Day activities, see Earthday Network website; Envirolink website; U.S. E.P.A. website for Earth Day.] [a/k/ an International Earth Day, National Earth Day]
- 4/22: Day the world’s nations guaranteed asylum to those persecuted in their homelands on account of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group (1954). [Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: signed 7/28/1951; entered into force 4/22/1954.] [Text of Convention] [For more information, see United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (U.N.H.C.R.) website; Human Rights Watch website.]
- 4/25 eve to 4/26 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Hekate, who guides all through transitions and crisis. [Elaphebolion last day]
- 4/26 Grand Climax – oral, anal, vaginal Corpus De Baahl 1-25 (female)
- 4/26 (8:16 a.m. EDT): New Moon.
- 4/26 eve to 4/27 eve: Mounikhion Noumenia–Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. [Mounikhion 1]
SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE!! WAKE UP. Check out all the Calendars you can find and see if you can find any days as significant as these days they have selected! If you do let me know. They probably have something planned for it.
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Arch of Ba’al Is New World Order’s Model for “Temple of Darkness” in Jerusalem, Believes Rabbi
A replica of an ancient Roman triumphal arch reappeared in Italy last week, accompanying yet another summit of world leaders while attracting over two million visitors since its presentation three weeks ago. One rabbi, an expert in the New World Order, believes that the arch is the first step towards building a ‘Temple of Darkness’ in Jerusalem.
The arch is a reproduction of a Roman victory arch built in Palmyra, Syria in the second century CE for a temple where pagans prayed to the Mesopotamian god, Bel, also known as Ba’al, in a form of idol worship that figures prominently in the Bible. The original arch was destroyed by the Islamic State in 2015, but last year, the Institute for Digital Archaeology used proprietary 3-D printing technology to reproduce the arch out of marble.
Unlike other pieces of its kind displayed in museums, the reincarnation of the Arch of Palmyra has been appearing in the most peculiar places while attracting more attention than the original arch in Syria. During its month-long visit scheduled to accompany the G7 Summit of world leaders, millions of tourists came to Arona, Sicily to view the replica.
The Triumphal Arch of Palmyra reproduction in Arona, Italy. (Screenshot)
Rabbi Daniel Asore, a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, described what he believes is the significant role this replica of the Arch of Palmyra will play in the New World Order.
“This arch is the first step in that process, awakening an interest in people to paganism and as a focal point for world leaders to gather around,” the rabbi said. Intense public interest has indeed followed the arch on its globe-hopping journey, as two million Italians can attest.
World leaders seem especially drawn to the arch. In fact, it was assembled as the centerpiece for the World Government Summit, an international meeting of global leaders in Dubai last February. The Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) has joined in the project with Oxford University’s Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) and Harvard University.
“Their ultimate goal is to usurp the Bible and create the Third Temple in Jerusalem, but for the worship of darkness, and not the worship of light,” the rabbi explained. “The New World Order worships science and technology, so it is fitting they should use this 3-D printing to create their Temple.”
He also pointed to the UN efforts to erase the connection between Israel and the Temple Mount.
“[The New World Order is] using the UN, an aspect of the world government effort, to clear the way for their Temple of Darkness,” Rabbi Asore said. “Part of that is to create a conflict out of thin air, to set the Arabs against the Jews, so that we will cancel each other out, leaving anarchy and destruction behind.”
The French Ministry of Defense has underwritten over $1 million towards the proprietary 3-D technology used to create the replica. The ministry released a statement explaining that the technology “can be used by troops on the ground and scholars via their laptops anywhere to assess the condition of monuments and sites at risk”.
Rabbi Asore suspected more sinister motives behind the French investment, giving a rather startling speculation on its origins.
“After the Templars, the first Masons, left Jerusalem in the Medieval period, they fled to France. It may be that some influence remains in the power structure in France, via the New World Order and the Masons,” he suggested.
The first appearance of the arch was in April last year at London’s Trafalgar Square for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Week. The unveiling coincided with the most important pagan holiday of the year, Beltane, ushering is a 13-day period known in the occult as “the Blood Sacrifice to the Beast”, which was traditionally celebrated with child sacrifice and bisexual orgies.
G7 Culture: Replica of Palmyra Arch on display in Florence
FLORENCE, MARCH 28 – After being displayed in London, New York, and Dubai, a replica of Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph, recreated by The Million Image Database project to safeguard world heritage, was installed in Piazza Della Signoria in Florence as part of the G7 of Culture taking place in the Tuscan city on March 30th and 31st.
The initiative, launched by the Institute for Digital Archaeology, was carried out with the combined efforts of UNESCO, Oxford University, the Dubai Museum of the Future and the government of the United Arab Emirates. It is in line with the Unite4Heritage campaigns promoted by the UN agency for a culture which were bolstered after the Italo-French resolution to protect cultural heritage was unanimously approved by the Security Council on Friday.
TorArt’s robots reproducing the Arch
The Arch was placed in Piazza Della Signoria facing Palazzo Vecchio, to symbolize the rebirth and reconstruction of works of art that belong to the heritage of mankind, and will be on display until April 27th. Although the initiative took shape on a global scale, the Arch was actually built in Tuscany by Torart, a company from Carrara led by two young entrepreneurs, Giacomo Massari and Filippo Tincolini, which specializes in sculpture, contemporary art and design and in the use of new technologies in crafting marble, gemstones and other hard materials.
Mar 30, 2016
The replica of the Palmyra Arch has already been on display in the heart of London, in Trafalgar Square and in New York’s City Hall. Florence is the first location in Italy and its journey aims to engage international public opinion in recognizing the importance of safeguarding mankind’s cultural and artistic heritage.
The installation of the Arch is not the only initiative that will enrich the Florentine G7. Nardella, who met today with
the directors of renown European and American museums to discuss the circulation of works of art, announced that the famed Chimera of Arezzo, dating back to the Etruscans (4th-5th century), then found and brought to palazzo Vecchio by Cosimo I De’ Medici in 1552, will return to its rightful home: “It will be on display for dignitaries and delegations as well as for passionate art-lovers from all over the world.”
Inside the Palazzo Vecchio the famous Chimera of Arezzo — an Etruscan bronze sculpture of a roaring lion distinguished by the head of a goat and a snake riding on his back — will be transferred from the Archeological Museum to the Sala Leone X. This is the room where Cosimo de Medici I had originally displayed it after it had been discovered in the mid-16th century. Source
Arch of Ba’al, With Shadowy Ties to New World Order, May Be Messiah’s End-of-Days Gateway: Rabbi
“For he built again the high places which Chizkiyahu his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal.” II Kings 21:3 (The Israel Bible™)
A pagan arch erected in Italy one month before the meeting of the world’s most powerful leaders in the same country may be the portal whose opening could usher in the age of the Messiah – or a sinister World Order, a prominent rabbi has claimed.
The rabbi believes that the two events – the unveiling last month of a replica of the Palmyra Arch, a symbol of paganism and idol worship, and the recent G7 summit, representing the coming together of world powers – are deeply and troublingly connected.
“This arch brings together all the necessary elements for the New World Order,” explained Rabbi Daniel Asore, a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, to Breaking Israel News. “If you look at where this arch has appeared, it is clearly a pattern moving towards a specific goal: Messiah. The question is, whose Messiah will it be?”
The structure is a reproduction of a Roman victory arch built in Palmyra, Syria at the end of the second century CE. Originally it stood in front of a Roman temple where pagans worshiped the Mesopotamian god, Bel, also known as Ba’al, in a form of idol worship that figures prominently in the Bible. The original arch was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015, but one year later, the Institute for Digital Archaeology used 3-D printing technology to reproduce a 20-foot full-scale replica.
The reproduction, which has traveled around the world to grace a number of events – each related to a concentration of global world power – was erected in Florence, Italy, one month ago as part of the first-ever Cultural Summit of the G7. This meeting was a prelude to the annual summit that brings together the leaders of the world’s seven major advanced economies. The seven entities, representing more than 64 percent of the net global wealth, came together last Friday in Taormina, Italy.
Rabbi Asore explained that this connection to Ba’al was essential to the New World Order, and was therefore necessary to elements in the G7 seeking world domination.
“The New World Order is not a secular, atheist movement,” explained Rabbi Asore. “They combine worship of Ba’al with worship of the Egyptian god, Isis, and also the true name of God. They need to bring together all of these elements.”
Rabbi Asore added that changes within Christianity, specifically Catholicism, are part of the battle against the New World Order. This was one of his motives for participating in the Sanhedrin’s trial against Pope Francis in 2015.
“The culture of paganic Rome is taking over Christianity,” he argued. “Christianity must be taken back from Roman culture, which is paganism.”
The arch, originally reconstructed for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Heritage week in England, also relates to the New World Order’s designs on the Holy Temple and the name of the Jewish God, the rabbi said.
“UNESCO, as part of the New World Order, has to usurp the true name of God,” Rabbi Asore explained. “It is towards this end that UNESCO is working towards changing the name and history of the Temple Mount, in order to control the original name of the Jewish God. That is why they made the most absurd claims about the holy places in Israel, but the power of the New World Order is real, so they were successful, despite their obvious lies.”
Rabbi Asore said that the arch’s role in bringing the Messiah was explicitly described in the Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin (78a).
The disciples of Rabbi Yossi the son of Kisma questioned him, asking when the son of David (the Messiah) will appear. And he answered: I am afraid you will request from me a sign as well. And they assured him that they would not. He then said to them: When this gate will fall, be rebuilt and fall again, be rebuilt again and fall again. And before it will be rebuilt for the third time the Messiah will appear.
Revered Jewish scholar Rashi, a medieval rabbi who authored a canonical commentary on the Torah, wrote that the arch mentioned by Rabbi Yossi was “a Roman arch in a Roman city”.
Rabbi Asore explained that when the Talmud describes the gate falling, it is not referring to an intentional act of deconstruction, but to the powers of evil triumphing over those who serve the true God, symbolized by the Arch of Palmyra.
“There is no question that the arch is the portal for a new world that the Talmud is speaking about. If the New World Order succeeds, then they will rule, God forbid,” Rabbi Asore said. “But if the Moshiach ben David (Messiah from the House of David) comes through the portal, he will rule over them, over the New World Order.”
The first modern reappearance of the Arch of Palmyra was in London’s Trafalgar Square in April 2016, when it was erected for(UNESCO) World Heritage Week. The unveiling coincided with the beginning of a 13-day period known in the occult as “the Blood Sacrifice to the Beast”, the most important holiday for those who worship the god Ba’al, celebrated with child sacrifice and bisexual orgies.
In February, the arch was assembled again as the centerpiece for the World Government Summit in Dubai, an
international meeting of global leaders to discuss policy.
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The Mystery of the Triumphal Arch of Titus w/Chad Schafer Part 1
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“…They were erected to demonstrate the triumph of the victor over the conquered. The original Roman Arch of Triumph fully developed by General Titus to commemorate the Roman Empire’s victory over Judea and the commencement of the diaspora of the Jews circa 70 AD…” ~ Chad Schafer
The Mystery of the Triumphal Arch of Titus w/Chad Schafer Part 2
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March 23, 2016 by Michael Snyder
The reproductions of the 50-foot arch that stood at the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria will only be the first of many. As you will see below, it turns out that there are plans to put arches in hundreds more cities all over the globe. The organization behind this is the Institute of Digital Archaeology, which is a joint venture between Harvard University, the University of Oxford and Dubai’s Museum of the Future. The initial arches from the Temple of Baal that will be erected in New York and London as part of UNESCO’s World Heritage Week in April are intended “as a gesture of defiance“, but ultimately the plan is to share this “cultural treasure” with as many cities around the planet as possible.
If you go to Times Square in New York or Trafalgar Square in London late next month, you will not be able to miss these giant arches. According to , they will be 48 feet high and 23 feet wide…
The life-size model of the original 2,000-year-old structure, known as the Arch of the Temple of Bel, will stand approximately 48 feet high and 23 feet wide.
It will be one of two constructed in China for exhibition likely in Times Square and London’s Trafalgar Square as part of a World Heritage Week event in April 2016, said Roger Michel, executive director for the Institute for Digital Archaeology.
I suppose that it is appropriate that these giant arches are going to be made in China because it seems like almost everyone is being made over there these days.
But these are not the only two giant arches that are going to be made. That same article from the New York Post says that the Institute for Digital Archaeology ultimately hopes to put 1,000 of these arches in cities all over the globe…
The institute plans to construct approximately 1,000 such versions of the arch in cities throughout the world.
If you are anything like me, this is an extremely disturbing development. Baal worship is definitely not something that we should be celebrating as a society. There were very good reasons why the God of the Bible found it so incredibly repulsive. The following description of what went on during Baal worship comes from Scott Brown…
We know that there were usually lots of people gathered, often on a high hill (like a theatre or stadium) to observe public sex, just like we see in movies and television and on the internet (Numbers 22:41, I Kings 12:25-33). We think that our watching these things is different than the idolatry of old, but this is not so.
The whole community came out and all of the best pagan ideas for success in crops and fertility were promoted, just like a business seminar that promotes unbiblical ideas that justify the worldliness of its origin.
The wicked personalities (promoters and performers) were respected and given the platform (like rock stars and Hollywood’s “People’.) Some of them were great dancers (like Brittany Spears and Madonna) while others were great musicians (like Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney) (I Kings 15:12-14). In our day, people who go to our churches celebrate celebrities when they should be doing the opposite. Psalm 101:1, 3 says “I will walk in my house… I will set no wicked thing before my eyes…”
People danced around the Asherah pole, which was nothing more than a phallic symbol. It is quite possible that these poles functioned somewhat like the poles in what are called, “gentlemen’s clubs.” The people also acted out lustful, licentious, bawdy scenes for the enjoyment of all who came (Isaiah 57:5-8; Deuteronomy 23:17).They had all the different kinds of sexual experiences on display including men with women, men with men and all of the combinations that are popular today in sit-coms, movies and news reports. On top of that, they invited the crowd to participate (I Kings 14:24).
In addition to everything that you just read, child sacrifice was a central feature of Baal worship. This is what Jeremiah 10:4-6 says…
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
We like to think that we are so much more advanced than people back then, but are we really?
Just like ancient Baal worshippers, we are a society that is addicted to watching other people have sex. In fact, it has been estimated that 68 percent of all Christian men watch pornography on a regular basis.
And just like ancient Baal worshippers, we are a society that is engaged in child sacrifice. We call it “abortion”, but the motives are still the same. If an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy comes along, we have a mechanism “for getting rid of it” just like they did.
Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, we have slaughtered more than 58 million of our own children. I would venture to say that the ancient Baal worshippers never got quite that much blood on their own hands.
On one level, I find it quite ironic that a reproduction of part of the Temple of Baal is going up in Times Square. David Wilkerson once preached a message entitled “Tearing Down The Altars Of Baal” at Times Square Church, and now a monument to Baal is actually being erected in Times Square.
In our next video, my wife and I will be covering all of this. When it is published, you will be able to find it on our YouTube channel. And don’t forget to hit the red subscribe button on the right-hand side of our YouTube page.
Many people regard America as modern day Babylon, and now we are going to have a monument that directly links us to ancient Babylon right in the heart of our most important city.
To me, this is one of the most important news stories of 2016 so far.
But what do you think? Please feel free to join the discussion by posting a comment below…
*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of End Of The American Dream. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.*
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In the same year the arch of BA’AL was erected in Italy, the ROMAN Triumphal Arch was being restored. Another GATEWAY.
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Archaeologists Reconstruct How the Arch of Titus Looked – in Full Color
When built, the Arch was not a majestic white stone testimony to Rome crushing the Jews, it was a brightly colored monument aggrandizing Vespasian and his dynasty.
The cities of ancient Rome and Greece were adorned with stone statues. We are awed to this day by the perfect lines and intricate carvings and weirdly small male parts, all starkly carved in white marble. But when made thousands of years ago, these pieces looked completely different. They were gaudily painted and according to modern tastes, they looked more like they belonged in a kitschy flea market than the Metropolitan Museum.
Now Professor Steven Fine of Yeshiva University and his team have “colorized” the Arch of Titus in Rome, based on the discovery that the menorah depicted on the panel showing Roman soldiers parading with treasures looted from the Second Temple in Jerusalem had been painted yellow.
It is absurd to think that the triumphant Romans colored only the menorah, especially as we are realizing they painted everything. The whole Arch was probably a blaze of color that would have complied with the aesthetics of the time, but would make westerners today shudder.
“There is a western trope of black and white being signs of purity,” Fine tells Haaretz. “That’s why we live in a ‘white’ city. That’s why New Yorkers wear black and white (and brown) to work. Most people hate the Roman statues in color. They think it looks like a piñata.”
Note that the spoils from the Temple taken by Rome some 2,000 years ago have not been found. We do not have the menorah and if anything, there is a fierce argument over what it really looked like. Mostly the menorah is depicted, like in the Arch, as being round-based but some, such as the Chabad Hassidic movement, believe it had a triangular base.
Nor do we know if the original menorah was indeed made of gold. But the yellow color in panel of the arch showing Titus’ triumph argues that it was. (Some rabbinic sources describe the Temple menorah as being multicolored, Fine notes.)
Whatever it looked like, the ancient Romans took the menorah and built not one but two arches in Rome to mark the victory over the rebellious Jews of Palestine.
Caligula in color
“I was part of the team that found bits of paint on a Caligula statue,” he says, referring to the short-lived Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41 C.E.) known for exhausting the Roman treasury with his extravagance and for his foul personal habits.
The Caligula project led Fine to suggest testing the Arch of Titus. The Roman Antiquities Authority gave permission and the archaeologists found traces of yellow paint on the menorah.
That momentous discovery did not win the team the accolades they might have anticipated. “Wouldn’t you know, we were immediately attacked for taking away the ‘true vision’ of ancient Rome,” Fine says.
Unable to continue testing the Arch because of various hurdles but uncowed by the howls, they began to imagine what the rest of it had looked like. “Once you have one bit of color on a major monument, you have it all,” Fine says, though qualifying that they are not stating that they have nailed the true colors of the panel.
Their reconstruction is theoretical, but is based on common sense and standard Roman iconography, and also the belief that the Romans had a very limited palette. For instance blue was a tough color to synthesize until the 19th century: “They had to use costly lapis lazuli, which decomposes quickly.”
There are actually two Arces of Titus in Rome. This soldier’s face is from the second one, found at the Circus MaximusCredit: Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni CulturaliHoping to gain insight on the real look of the spoils panel, Fine and his team created a three-dimensional scan of it and created a digital restoration. But as for the real thing, merely gazing at marble from which the paint chipped off millennia ago isn’t helpful, so Fine tapped the science of metallurgy.
Initially they imagined the Roman soldiers shouldering the Temple spoils walking on green grass, but experts on Roman statuary counseled them to use basalt gray. They could surmise that the trumpets had been colored silver (the historian Josephus says as much) and that the background sky was blue, that leaves were green, and so on. “Our colors are really bright because it’s the day they were painted. We took the tone from the yellow and did it across the board,” Fine says.
In their digital reconstruction, Fine and the team “fixed” the heads of the Roman soldiers, but deliberately did not give them individual faces. “We took one head that existed in three dimensions and cloned it. They all have the same face – looks like Star Wars,” he laughs. (The other original heads were all two-dimensional.)
The Arch of Titus is positioned on an east-west axis, and as one goes into the arch, the carving gets shallower. On the left, the menorah is a deep-etched relief; on the right, it’s shallow, says Fine. If light is raked across the Arch, the figures seem to be moving.
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