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Statue of Constantine I reunited with digit missing for 500 years

Statue of Constantine I reunited with digit missing for 500 years Ian Randall For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A giant bronze statue of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great has been reunited with a finger that it lost some 500 years ago. Held in the Capitoline Museums of Rome, remains of the 39ft colossus include a head as tall as a man, a damaged left hand and the sphere it once bore. In 2018, doctoral student Aurélia Azéma realised that a 15-inch-long bronze digit in Paris Louvre was not a toe as it had been identified in 1913 but Constantine s lost forefinger.

Archaeology: Statue of Roman emperor Constantine the Great reunited with digit missing for 500 years

The 39-feet-tall colossus was believed to have been crafted around 330 BC Its head, hand and a globe it once bore are held in Rome s Capitoline Museums The hand was damaged by the globe s removal sometime before the 1530s Thought lost, the forefinger was identified in 2018 by researcher Aurélia Azéma This Wednesday saw the missing digit remounted onto Constantine s hand

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