The second is a crowned female pointing behind her. The inscription reads "Whoever you are, take from this treasure as it please you. But I ask that you take the head and leave the body." The narrator then mentions feeling a "sacred horror" and leaving the place.
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Both statues are in the head of an giant elephant, which supports an obelisk. On the elephant, an inscription reads "CEREBRUM EST IN CAPITE" & "πόνος καὶ εὐφυία" - "The brain is in the head" & "Labour & Genius". Two eternal lamps burn by the statues.
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Although I suspect the allegory is centered on the Timaeus, I am unable to understand it. Since Twitter is turning more & more into a Renaissance Neoplatonician Academy, I thought I'd ask if anyone had some idea about what the two statues & the elephant could mean.
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