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Sculpture

Heavenly bodies

28 July 2016

1:00 PM

28 July 2016

1:00 PM

Initially it must have been a nasty surprise. On 16 August 1972 an amateur scuba diver named Stefano Mariottini was fishing in shallow waters just off the coast of Calabria. At about noon he was poking around some rocks when he saw part of an arm protruding from the sand.

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