Deer hunting grave
The grave of the deer hunt is a man's grave from around 365 BC. BC, which was found near Paestum . His remains are kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Paestum .
Grave slabs
According to Bernard Andreae, the paintings on the inside of the burial chamber are most likely by the same painter as those on the grave of the returning knight .
Until 2007, it was assumed that the eponymous painting was on the plate on the west side of the grave, but when preparing an exhibition it turned out that this plate apparently belonged to the head side, i.e. the eastern end of the grave. The long-haired, booted hunter clad in a short red bordered robe, who has thrown his cloak or cloak over his left arm, faces left in the right half of the picture and reaches out with his right arm to throw a spear at a deer , which occupies the left half of the picture. The animal has already been hit by two other weapons on the head and left hind leg and is also bleeding from the bites that two hunting dogs have inflicted on it: a dark dog has bitten its neck from behind, and a reddish-brown dog in the left hind leg . The landscape in which this scene takes place is indicated by plants, and hunters, deer and dogs are not standing directly on the red-brown rectangle that closes the painting at the bottom and can be found at the same height on all four panels of the grave, but further up in the room. A certain perspective effect is also achieved through the overlapping of the figures. The gable of the pentagonal plate is separated from this picture by a branch motif between two red lines and shows a kind of wreath between two pomegranates .
On the opposite narrow side of the grave, this wreath appears again as a motif between two pomegranates in the square lower part of the plate, while four more pomegranates fill the gable field.
The paintings on the vertical panels show scenes from the funeral games as they were found in a similar form in the graves of the pomegranates and the returning knight, which were regarded as older . One longitudinal plate shows two naked boxers on the left, one of whom is dark-skinned and who are being watched by a flute player wearing a long, red-braided robe and a phorbeia . In contrast to the two graves mentioned, the second scene is not separated from the first by a column, but is seamlessly connected to the right: two armored warriors fight each other with lances. There is blood flowing, as in the depiction of the deer hunt, and the referee on the right edge of the picture, who raises a kind of hoop or wreath with his right hand, seems to want to intervene with his mouth open. However, his gaze is not directed at the two bleeding opponents, but backwards. The bodies of the fair-skinned people are drawn by dark outlines and are the same color as the background. The protruding hooked nose and the open mouth of the referee, in which the teeth can be seen, as well as his rolling eye are striking. The picture on the second longitudinal plate shows the chariot racing scene known from the older graves; this time the driver in front has already passed the column in the center of the picture and seems to be steering his team into a curve. The head of the left, fox-colored horse is pressed against the neck and possibly turned towards the viewer - the plate shows some damage here - while the black horse, which is harnessed to the right, apparently has freer reins and still seems to be looking in the previous direction of travel. A third pair of rear legs, which was only sketched in outline but not filled in with color, is apparently the remains of a distortion in the first team. Due to the poor condition of the painting, details of the rear team can hardly be seen. Red garlands can be seen over the horse's back, as can be found in older graves from the same necropolis.
Grave goods
A red-figure skyphos from the vicinity of the Sydney painter was found as a burial object in the grave. It is 12.8 cm high and shows on one side a dressed maenad with a tympanum and torch, on the other side a youth with a cloak, who also carries a torch in his right hand.
exhibition
The grave slabs and the skyphos were shown in 2007 as part of an exhibition in Hamburg and in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin . There the plates could be presented assembled to form a burial chamber, which is not possible in Paestum because of their heavy weight.
literature
- Bernard Andreae et al. a .: painting for eternity. The tombs of Paestum. Exhibition Bucerius Kunst Forum Hamburg, October 13, 2007 to January 20, 2008. Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3745-3 , pp. 60–67 and update (loose sheet)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paestum, Museo Archeologio Nazionale Inv.-No. 31682-31685
- ↑ Bernard Andreae et al. a .: painting for eternity. The graves of Paestum , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3745-3 , p. 60
- ↑ Paestum, Museo Archeologio Nazionale Inv.-No. 31686