Admission ticket for an athletic event at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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A ticket for admission to an athletic event at the Stadio Olimpico during the 1960 Rome Olympics. The ticket is pink with a red graphic of the portico of the Temple of Saturn. The portico is depicted as ruins with a piece of a fallen column in the foreground on the bottom center. Behind the portico, additional monuments and architecture can be seen. Below center to the right of the portico is a white graphic of the Olympic Stadium. At the top in the center is a block of red text and the logo of the 1960 Rome Olympics. The logo features the Olympic rings capped with a statue of the Capitoline Wolf and the date in Roman numerals. On the right side of the ticket is a stylized clock with the time at 3 o'clock and a white graphic of a track runner.

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