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Worn and rough stone spheres, silent remnants of a distant past. Central Italy, 16th century.
These are ancient projectiles, once launched by catapults or trebuchets during sieges to breach walls, bring down wooden structures, or spread panic among enemy ranks.
Crude and rudimentary, they were not made to be elegant: they were built to be effective, not beautiful. Destruction did not require ballistic precision — their roughly spherical shape was enough to send them flying with force.
Carved by hand from dense limestone, they were shaped in quarries or directly on the battlefield, using materials chosen for their weight, strength, and workability.
Today, they are just stones — but they still bear the signs of what they once were: centuries of weathering and the scars of impact. Simple, rough objects, yet full of memory. Tangible fragments of a history made of effort, resourcefulness, and necessity.
Abandoned for centuries, they no longer pose any threat. Yet to those who look closely, they still evoke the sharp sound of release, the tension of siege, the dull thud of impact.
- Material: Grey Stone
- Condition: Restored
- Period: '500
- State: Good conditions
