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     Some people thought she was Tullia, daughter of
the Roman writer/statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Tullia married Cornelius Dolabella in 47 B.C. and dropped
out of the history books.
    Others were not so sure, however.  Ponte wrote,
"Tiny ears, low forehead, black eyelashes, finally
eyes of singular shape, under whose eyelids the cornea
still appeared.  Even the nostrils were still intact and so
soft as to vibrate at the simple touch of a finger.  Her red
lips half-closed, small and white teeth, her scarlet tongue
near the palate.  Her cheeks, tongue, neck seemed to
palpitate.  Her arms hung down intact from her shoulders
so that you wished you could have moved them.  Her
nails still adhered firmly to her long, outstretched hands,
also if you had tried, you would not have succeeded in
detaching them.  Her breasts, stomach and womb were,
on the contrary, compressed at one side and, after the
removal of the aromatic crust, they decomposed.  Her
back, sides and buttocks instead had conserved their
contours and marvelous shapes, just like her thighs
and legs, which in life had presented even greater
prizes than her face."
     "In short, this must have concerned the most
beautiful young woman of noble family during the period
when Rome was at its greatest splendor.  However,
the majestic monument under the crypt had been
destroyed many centuries or so ago, without there
remaining even an inscription.  Also the sarcophagus
did not bear any sign.  We know neither the name of
the young woman nor her origin nor her age."
     The discovery also upset a lot of people, notably
Pope Innocent VIII.  He was troubled by the implications
of the "aromatic crust," some sort of ancient preservative
that completely stymied decomposition.  Even worse
was the mysterious lamp "cool to the touch" that had
been burning for at least 1,400 years.
     The pope ordered the Capitoline Hill crypt sealed
and had "Tullia" quietly reburied in an Italian convent.
     As a result, today all that remains of "Tullia" is the
charcoal sketch of her Bartolomeo Fonte drew in that
mysterious vault five hundred years ago.  (See the
article "Il Franciulla e La Lampada" in Il Giornale del
Misteri, Number 7, Autumn 1971, by Mara Calabri,
Corrado Tedeschi Editore, Firenze, Italy.  Reprinted
in GODS AND SPACEMEN IN GREECE AND ROME
by W. Raymond Drake, Signet Books, New American
Library, New York, N.Y. 1976, page 174.)
(Editor's Comment: I sometimes wonder if "Tullia"
might be a dead princess from the lost civilization of
Saturnia.  The mysterious crypt was found on the
Capitoline Hill in Rome.  Roman author Marcus
Terrentius Varro, in his book DE LINGUA LATINA,
writes, "This hill was previously called the Saturnian
Hill, we are informed by the writers, and from this
Latium has been called the Saturnian Land...It is
recorded that on this hill was an old town named
Saturnia.  Even now (That is, in 50 B.C., when the
real Tullia was still a schoolgirl--J.T.) there remain
evidences of it; that there is a temple of Saturn by
the passage leading to the hill; that there is a
Saturnian gate, which Junius writes of as there,
which they now call Pondana, that behind the temple
of Saturn in the lawns for the buildings of private
persons, the back walls are mentioned as the
Saturnian Wells.")
     Today is the birthday of Judith Ann Resnick,
one of the seven astronauts who died in the explosion
of the space shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986.
Judy was born on April 5, 1949.
     We'll be back next week with more saucer news
from "the paper that goes home--UFO ROUNDUP."
See you then.
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