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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

sigillaria
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Name of a fossil non-woody plant, although the size of a tree (about 25 or 30 meters), it had no timber stem. It existed in the Carboniferous Period. It belonged to the Lepidodendraceae family and supported salt water. In Taxonomy and Botany it is the name of a genus of giant herbaceous plants that existed in the Carboniferous.

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Statuettes of clay, wax or bread that the Romans gave themselves in the Saturnalias in a festive atmosphere and revelry. They could have very different forms; some represented the god Priapus or were shaped like a phallus. Everyone shouted: Io Saturnalia! wearing on his head the pileo or Phrygian cap typical of freed slaves.

  



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