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		</div><p>A pair of terracotta lovers caught in a tender embrace for 2,500 years are getting some Valentine’s Day TLC from Italian cultural officials.</p>
<p>One of the most famous lovers’ statues in the art world, the reclining spouses fashioned out of terracotta are being offered high-tech protection from the threat of earthquakes and lesser tremors from passing traffic outside, officials said Monday as they unveiled the 18-month project.</p>
<p>The Sarcophagus Of The Spouses, made by an unknown artisan, is actually an urn constructed to hold the remains of the deceased.</p>
<p>It is a top attraction at the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia.</p>
<p>“The sarcophagus is threatened on a daily basis by the vibrations produced by the tramway and the railway Rome-Viterbo,” said Valentino Nizzo, the museum’s director.</p>
<p>The 18-month project includes the construction of an anti-seismic platform for the sarcophagus that will help reduce vibration that threaten it.</p>
<p>The sarcophagus, dating to the sixth century BC, was discovered in 1881 in a necropolis in Cerveteri, a former Etruscan settlement near Rome.</p>
<p>It was reconstructed from approximately 400 terracotta fragments.</p>
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