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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3157374, member: 19463&quot;]Somewhere I got the idea that some &#039;surviving&#039; statues came from trash heaps where broken marble that had outlived its original usefulness was recycled (by burning to make quicklime?) for use in plaster or cements.&nbsp; Confirm or deny?&nbsp; I don&#039;t think the Greeks had as high a tolerance for noseless, armless or old fashioned art as we do today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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