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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2793126, member: 83956&quot;]Good question. I wondered if the Etruscan statue was found early in Rome&#039;s history and became the prototype of the &quot;standing wolf&quot; image. But after reading up on this statue, it seems that even the wolf may not be ancient, so the mystery continues:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;But new laboratory analysis suggests that the <i>She-wolf</i> is not ancient and was made in the Middle Ages, specifically the twelfth century C.E. Questions about the authenticity of the <i>She-wolf</i> were first raised when the statue was restored in the late 1990s. At that time, conservators realized that the casting technique used to make it is not the same as the hollow casting technique used on other large-scale bronze sculptures. Instead of using multiple molds, as described above, the <i>She-wolf</i> is made as a single piece. Proponents of this view argue that the wolf is more similar stylistically to medieval bronzes. Proponents of the Etruscan date claim that the few surviving Etruscan large-scale bronze statues are stylistically similar to the <i>She-wolf.&quot; -- <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/roman/roman-republic/a/capitoline-she-wolf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/roman/roman-republic/a/capitoline-she-wolf" rel="nofollow">https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/roman/roman-republic/a/capitoline-she-wolf</a></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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