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Called in to study the find Giulio Jacopi, director of Rome's Museo del Terme, a top archaeological authority, examined the fragments and made an excited announcement: on some of them he found the Greek inscription, "Done by Agesander, Polydorus and Athenodorus," the father and sons generally credited with the original Laocoön group. Said Jacopi: "That violently twisted neck . . . that great marble foot . . . the veins on that huge hand . . . the serpent is monstrous ... I believe it is Laoco...
...pieces. To complicate matters, the citizens of Sperlonga were trying to keep the fragments in home ground. Thinking of tourist-trade possibilities, they rolled a five-ton rock before the cave entrance, dug a moat to frustrate approaching trucks. Still, having logic, culture and Cops all on his side, Jacopi was determined to get the entire cave excavated and the fragments transported to Rome, where they can be expertly examined and reassembled to determine whether they are, indeed, the original Laoco...
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