The head of the Minerva statue that was originally inside the temple. She had to be re-gilded 6 times, because the oil lamps in the temple made her sooty, and as the priests rubbed off the soot they also rubbed off the gold. The head was found on Stall Street (a couple of streets away from the complex) in 1727 by a worker putting in a new sewer system. By the way the neck is cut, historians believe she had her head actually chopped off, possibly by Christians or by raiding foreigners.
The little holes at the top edge of her head are believed to be where her helmet was originally fastened.
The Sacred Spring. You can't see it very well in this picture, but it has a hot mist wafting over it and it's constantly bubbling.
Janie and I tried to get a picture of us using the automatic timer function. It turned out all right, I think.
"We're going to drink THIS?!" (Yep, we drank it...pictures coming in a later post...)
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