Lupoaica

The Lupa Capitolina, or Capitoline Wolf, is a life-size bronze of a she-wolf suckling the twins Romulus and Remus. It stands 75 centimetres tall and 114 centimetres long in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Long believed to be an Etruscan work from the 5th century BC, recent thermoluminescence tests suggest the casting is medieval, probably 11th to 12th century. The twins were added in the 15th century, most likely by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. Despite the murky origins, it is the city's most famous symbol and appears on coins, flags and civic crests. Today it sits on a stone block in a domed hall of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, fully circumnavigable, with Roman inscriptions and views over the city as backdrop.