Street art · Rome
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Guardian lion meets Nile-side temple: this bronze recliner watches…
Guardian lion meets Nile-side temple: this bronze recliner watches over Rome's Egyptian-revival gateway like a Pharaoh's sphinx crossed with a Victorian cemetery sentinel, all lotus columns and 19th-century Egyptomania.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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