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Acropolis restorers unveil marble copy of capital carved in the ancient way
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NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-12-2006
Dateline: ATHENS, Greece
Greek culture ministry officials on Wednesday unveiled a marble replica of a column capital to be used in the ongoing mammoth Acropolis restoration project.
The unveiling took place after more than two years of painstaking labor using 2,500-year-old techniques.
The elaborate 2.2-ton capital, which will top a column in the monumental Propylaea gate leading to the Parthenon temple, was carved by hand by a team of two sculptors working off smashed pieces of the 5th century B.C. original.
"We used the same ...
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