The ongoing research in the Triangular Forum of the Pompeii Archaeological Park continues to offer surprises, now with an antefix and figured terracotta.
TikTok's viral trick to preserve avocado is dangerousPompeii excavations: a wonderful treasure! The most visited archaeological site in the world continues to amaze, where the recovery operations of ever new finds of rare beauty continue. Now it is the turn of an antefix and some figured terracottas offered as ex-votos.
After the fresco of Narcissus and that of Leda and the swan and many other finds, this time the archaeologists in collaboration with the Federico II University of Naples have unearthed other extraordinary friezes from the Roman era in the Triangular Forum in the sanctuary of Athena .
As explained by the director general of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Massimo Osanna, it is a 'antifissa (usually an element of the roof covering) depicting the dea Athena a decoration of the Doric temple and probably dating back to the end of the XNUMXth century BC, and of figured terracotta offered as ex-votos in the sacred space, which date back to the third century BC.
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According to experts, all the materials confirm the dedication of the temple that overlooked the Gulf of Naples to the couple Heracles and Athena, in a completely similar way to a sanctuary in Privati that stood in nearby Stabiae, on the other side of the Sarno river. , also from the XNUMXth century BC, which returned an antefix of Athena similar to the Pompeian one. The possibility is not excluded that the antifixes of Pompeii and Stabiae were made by the same person.
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