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# A child's face, boxed in stone
- URL: https://www.readingrome.com/a-childs-face-boxed-in-stone/
- Published: 2026-09-27T14:48:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-27T14:48:53.000Z
- Author: Maria Chugrova

A cherub in high relief, ringed by acanthus leaves in a wood frame — the kind of ornament that used to sit over a doorway and now hangs indoors like art. Someone saved it. Someone decided a random architectural fragment deserved a wall of its own.

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