Diver's grave
The diver's grave ( Tomba del Tuffatore ) was discovered in 1968 by Mario Napoli around 1500 meters south of the city wall of Paestum . It is a small painted burial chamber dating from 480/470 BC. Is dated. The paintings are - apart from Greek vase painting - the only example of figurative Greek painting from the 5th century BC. Chr.
description
The burial chamber contained the remains of a young man. The only grave goods found were a lekythos , two aryballoi and a turtle shell, which may have served as a sounding body for a lyre . Based on the lekythos, the grave is dated from 480 to 470 BC. Dated. The actual chamber is about 2.25 × 1.00 meters in size and consists of four stone slabs for the walls and a stone slab as a cover. The paintings on the four walls and on the roof are made using a real fresco technique . The stone blocks were covered with plaster, into which the outlines of the figures were scratched and then painted in the still wet plaster . The colors used are black, red, blue, green and white. Bare meat usually has black outlines, while details are drawn in two shades of red.
The paintings show a symposium . On the north and south sides there are a total of ten men on six clinics . On the western short side another guest comes (or goes?), He is accompanied by a man in a himation and a girl with a flute. The east side shows a servant next to a crater - a mixing vessel for wine.
The representations are typically Greek. Four pairs of men each lie on a kline, two other men are alone on a kline. The couples are each an older man and a young man without a beard. Two of the younger ones are musicians, one of them plays a double flute while the other holds a lyre in his hand. On the north wall you can see an older man who holds the younger one by the head while the latter caresses his chest or tries to push him away. Another young man plays kottabos - a game of skill often played at drinking parties. Iconography and execution are probably influenced by Attic vase painting . The homoerotic components of the depictions also fit well with Athenian subjects of this time. In contrast, the scene of the diver jumping into the water from a tower is rather non-Greek and may have been influenced by Etruscan paintings.
It is unknown who was buried here. It is believed that it was an Etruscan who lived and died in Paestum, but it may also have been a Greek who was impressed by Etruscan tomb paintings.
The grave is now part of the collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Paestum .
gallery
North face
South wall
West wall
East wall
top, roof
literature
- Marianna Castiglione: La tomba del tuffatore: nostalgia etrusca in magna grecia. ancora sulla figura del defunto. In: Scuola di etruscologia e archeologia dell'Italia antica et al. (Ed.): La pittura etrusca - Atti del IV corso di perfezionamento (anno accademico 2005-2006). L'Italia prima di Roma - Atti del V corso di perfezionamento (anno accademico 2006-2007). Quasar, Rom / Orvieto 2008, pp. 147–179.
- Robert Ross Holloway: The Tomb of the Diver. In: American Journal of Archeology . Volume 110, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 365-388.
- Mario Napoli: La tomba del Tuffatore. De Donato, Bari 1970.
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Individual evidence
- ^ R. Ross Holloway: The Tomb of the Diver , in: American Journal of Archeology 110 (3), (July 2006), 365-388, here p. 365.
- ↑ Dimitris Plantzos: The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece , Athens, 2018, ISBN 978-618-5209-20-9 , p. 120
- ↑ Plantzos: The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece , pp. 121-122
- ↑ Plantzos: The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece , p. 123