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Somewhere in the Monteverde neighborhood, Rome.

“At the corner of the property was one of the many street or crossroads shrines we find in the city: a rough-and-ready altar perched on the pavement, with a painting of a religious sacrifice plastered on its outside wall above. “ The Fires of Vesuivius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard.

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