La Lupa capitolina, Capitoline Wolf, Capital Hill, Rome. Unused Italian postcard

A collectable Italian postcard, showing The Capitoline Wolf (Latin: Lupa Capitolina) - a bronze sculpture of a she-wolf suckling twin infants, inspired by the legend of the founding of Rome.

According to the legend, when Numitor, grandfather of the twins Romulus and Remus, was overthrown by his brother Amulius, the usurper ordered the twins to be cast into the Tiber River.
They were rescued by a she-wolf who cared for them until a herdsman, Faustulus, found and raised them.
The Capitoline Wolf has been housed since 1471 in the Museo Nuovo in the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Campidoglio (the ancient Capitoline Hill), Rome, Italy.

Sized: 6" by 4" inches
 Excellent, as new condition.

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