Blind Stupid Luck ... just never ends

Now I've had a lot of this over the last couple of months but today was definately up there. When I was looking at the Rosetta stone, a tour guide from the museum came along and I tagged onto the back of his group as he was really fascinating.

Basically went through the Greek and Roman section, which I avoided yesterday as I had seen a lot of Roman stuff in Italy and wanted something different. If I didn't do this tour, I would not have seen at the sculpture and freizes taken from the Parthenon in Athens (that famous building on the mountain top you always seen). I even knew the stuff was here.

This is the room that has some of the friezes and at the far end you can see some of the sculpture from the triangle/pediment at either end of the building/temple



This is a close up on some of the sculpture at one end.



I mentioned that we got kicked out early yesterday cause the museum was closely for some important Italian VIPs. They were generous to 'lend' this famous bronze statue from Rome for a couple of months (made around 50BC). The marble one is from the British Museum collection (from around 25AD).

Always good to see things like this side by side and it wasn't there the previous day (incidence of blind stupid luck). The statue is quiet famous and there is even a copy in the Botanical Gardens in Sydney. Basically it is a boy pulling a throne out of his foot.