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us into the belief we were
not weary We rose at 10 the
next morning and at one we
started for the Museum or at
least all except Mrs [ ?]
she was sick. At the Museum
we spent the afternoon it is
filled with such sacred
relics of the past that one
can believe their senses that
these things were buried from
sight over two thousand years -
the statues found are as perfect
as if first chiseled and
many very beautiful We
saw loaves of bread cloth
bulks of chee[se] and wine solid
in a bottle this of cou[rse] irides-
cent ?] with age necklaces
rings -bracelets beautiful
unique and each one very
difficult to copy in workmanship
one most beautiful piece
of sculpture which was

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three immense but perfe[c]t it is called the
Farnese Bull because the King of [Naples?] of
this Farnese family paid the cost of having it
excavated from the Baths of Caracalla it is
a bull the size of life with a rope attached
to him a woman being dragged to the sac-
rifice but the animal is arrested by a
man who holds on - the woman is
sitting on ground [expressive ? ] figures another
man is coming to the rescue a day
in the act of [capturing it ?] the animal and
other details which now escape but it was
the most impressive thing I ever saw in
marble buried over two thousand years here

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LBrokaw

Picture of the sculpture Mrs. Stanford is describing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnese_Bull