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The present-day Capitoline Wolf could not have been the sculpture seen by Benedict and Gregorius, if its newly attributed age is accepted, though it could have been a replacement for an earlier (now lost) depiction of the Roman wolf. In December 1471, [[Pope Sixtus IV]] ordered the present sculpture to be transferred to the [[Palazzo dei Conservatori]] on the Capitoline Hill, and the twins were added some time around then. The Capitoline Wolf joined a number of other genuinely ancient sculptures transferred at the same time, to form the nucleus of the [[Capitoline Museums|Capitoline Museum]].