Word: cotta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primitive diving apparatus descended to the lake floor, described what he had seen in glowing terms: "There were pegs veined so darkly they seemed of ebony ... a pavement of bricks three palms each way, red as carmine, and also enameling. . . ." Still other grapplings yielded slabs of terra cotta, mosaics and porphyry, but the vessels themselves remained stuck in the ooze. In 1928 Mussolini, interested as always in reviving the spirit of the ancient Roman conquerors, brushed aside all the piecemeal methods of salvaging theretofore used and imperiously ordered the lake drained...