Pinax

    • Provenienza:
      Gift of Monseigneur Amorelli
    • Data:
      3rd century BC
    • Materiali:
      Marble
    • Dimensioni:
      height 52 cm, base 55 cm
    • Collocazione:
      Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
    • Inventario:
      inv. 841
  • Pinax

This image and others like it, made prevalently in local stone from the areas of Akrai, Old Noto, Lentini, Camarina, is decorated the numerous niches carved into the walls of the quarries and attests to a cult honouring the heroic dead between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.