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Boscoreale treasure: A ring of skeletons.

These two silver Roman drinking cups were buried by its owner prior to the eruption of volcano Vesuvius in 79 CE and unearthed 1800 years later at a villa near Pompeii.

They are ornamented with skeletons of famous poets and Greek philosophers beneath a garland of roses. The choice of a ring of skeletons to decorate these cups is not macabre, but is - on the contrary - a hymn to life, an incitement to enjoy the PRESENT.

Greek inscriptions engraved in dots form captions, and are accompanied by Epicurean maxims such as: "Enjoy life while you can, for tomorrow is uncertain!" (In Greek: ΖΩΝ ΜΕΤΑΛΑΒΕ ΤΟ ΓΑΡ ΑΥΡΙΟΝ ΑΔΗΛΟΝ ΕCΤΙ), "The highest good is Pleasure" ( TO TEΛΟC HΔΟΝΗ) or "Life is a theatre" (CKHNH O BIOC) etc.

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