6 minutes agoThe finger is reunited with Emperor Constantine's 12-foot-long, Illyrian-rooted hand after 500 years
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(5 years ago)The giant statue of Constantine the Great's hand in Rome has been reunited with his missing finger after more than 500 years. The 18 - inch - long [38 cm] bronze finger, found in the Louvre in Paris in 2018, was restored to the statue of the Capitolina Museum in Rome during today [...]
The 38cm-long bronze finger, found in Louvre in Paris in 2018, was remanaged at the statue of the Capitolina Museum in Rome during today's [April 29, 2021].
The finger was placed “perfect” at the spot needed, said museum director Claude Parisi Presicce.
The Louvre museum had wrongly classified the finger as a toe until an Albanian-eyed researcher, Aurelia Azma, discovered that it was actually the emperor's 12m-foot missing finger.
Constantine the Great, also known as Constantine the First, was Roman emperor between 306 and 337. He was born in Nazisus [Today's state of Serbia], and was the son of Flavius Constantinus, a Roman army officer born in Dardan. His mother, Helena, had been Greek. His father had been Illyrian. /Periscope
