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Face with slanting eyes, an archaic stylised crown-shaped hairstyle delimited on the top by a polos (headdress) full of holes.

  SHORT DESCRIPTION: The head presents a hair divided into thick locks and crowned by a little polos (headdress). The face presents heavy eyelids and a little mouth with thick lips.

The aryballos has a nearly spherical body crushed in the foot, a short neck and a small ribbon handle that binds almost the lip to the shoulder near the neck. Its surface presents a free decoration on a clear deep end with the presence (on the major background) of a mermaid and a fowl of […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Attic cup with a cylindrical stem on a circular foot and two lateral handles in a nearly horizontal position. The cup presents some bands spared in the foot and around the log where the narration is painted: Crowned Dionysus is wrapped in a cloak and holds a rhyton in one hand. Arianna is […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The lekythos presents an underlined foot at the bottom by a spared weblike pattern, followed by a black varnished motive to underline a clear Añastro. The face of the foot is always black varnished as part of the base and the brief stem. The result is a great clear varnished log up to […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: A naked ithyphallic man walks with his body bent forward. At the height of the bust he has a belt and a crested helmet on the head. In his left hand he holds a round shield with a circular ornament and a boss at the centre. In his right hand he holds a […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Athick disc-shaped mouth, a long neck and a long cylindrical body; vertical S-shaped handles applied from the shoulders to the body; a convex base. Decoration: a yellow filament in relief along the median zone of the mouth’s outer edge runs eight times on the neck with a spiral movement and gives rise to […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The little monetary treasure of Pagliuzza composed by 541 pieces of silver, is one of the most significant discoveries carried out in Sicily that can be traced back to the Roman-Republican Age. The coins were discovered in 1989 as a result of the agricultural works in an area a few kilometres South of […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The mosaic was found on Mount Riparato following a campaign of excavations conducted since 1975. It is an integral part of a large building, consisting of a variety of environments, including a thermal room whose system seems to date back to the third century AD.

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The funerary objects, dating from the third and second century. BC were found in the Southern necropolis of Monte Riparato, in the area of Saint Venere. The equipment includes some baked clay pots of different sizes, ointment jars, lamps, plates and anthropomorphic reproductions found inside the tombs.